
10.78- Neither War Nor Peace
Revolutions
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Lenin's Bloody Sunday
On january the third, lenins government placed petrograd under martial law. Opposed to this clanking bolsh encampment was an s r organized street demonstration with no guns and no violence. In at least two separate incidents, these soldiers opened fire on the unarmed procession, killing somewhere between ten and 20 people. This was actually the first time russian soldiers had fired on unarmed demonstrators since the february revolution.
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