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For example, in a telegram, which became known as "Lenin's hanging order", he demanded to "crush" landowners in Penza and to publicly hang "at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers" [11] in response to a peasant revolt there; yet, only the 13 organizers of the murder of local authorities and the uprising were arrested, while ...
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At the direction of Vladimir Lenin, the Cheka performed mass arrests, imprisonments, torture, and executions without trial in what came to be known as the "Red Terror". It policed the Gulag system of labor camps , conducted requisitions of food , and put down rebellions by workers and peasants.
On Sept. 5, 1918, the Soviet government adopted a decree sanctioning “Red Terror,” which prescribed “mass shooting” to be “inflicted without hesitation.”
On August 30, 1918, Lenin spoke at the Hammer and Sickle, an arms factory in southern Moscow. [11] As Lenin left the building and before he had entered his car, Kaplan called out to him. When Lenin turned towards her, she fired three shots with a FN M1900 pistol. One bullet passed through Lenin's coat, and the other two struck him.
While Lenin was absent, of 5 September 1918 Sovnarkom passed a decree, "On Red Terror", which Lenin later endorsed. [185] This decree called for perceived class enemies of the proletariat to be isolated in concentration camps , and for those aiding the White Armies or rebellions to be shot; it decreed that the names of those executed should ...
Red Terror; Purges of the Communist Party; Great Purge; ... After Lenin's death in 1924, ... and watched western movies [clarification needed]. However Nuksha 2, ...
Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker.The cast includes Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, and Maria Simon.The story follows a family in East Germany (GDR); the mother (Sass) is dedicated to the socialist cause and falls into a coma in October 1989, shortly before the Peaceful Revolution in November.