The existing assumption of facts I have going into this is that from a period between 1918 and 1922 an estimated 50,000 to 200,000 people were executed by the Bolsheviks. What isnt clear to me is was this just mopping up what was left of the Whites and couter-revolutionaries, or was any dissent against the Bolsheviks liable to put you in the line of fire? Was the high death count justified or not? Thoughts?

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    8 months ago

    The Socialist Revolutionaries who assassinated a German diplomat in an attempt to sabotage peace talks and keep the war with Germany going?

    Come on.