
10.44- Bolshevik Bank Heist
Revolutions
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The Russian Bank Robbery in Tefleece
Grupskay said the money was badly needed, and so a group of comrades made an attempt to change the 500 rouble notes simultaneously in various towns abroad. In january 19 o eight, they tried it, and it failed. Bank managers across europe had been alerted to be on the lookout for 500 rouble russian notes. Everyone who tried to bring some in, whether in stockholm or geneva or paris, was arrested. As you can imagine, all of this caused further ruptures between the bolsheviks and the mensheviks.
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