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Baku: the oil and the commissars
Sep 1918 — After Baku falls, twenty-six captured Bolshevik commissars are taken across the Caspian and shot in the desert. The Caucasus oil that everyone wants is remembered here with its dead.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — Intervention in The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924.
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