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Red Terror & White Terror
Sep 1918 — After an attempt on Lenin’s life the Cheka is unleashed; the Whites answer in kind. Both sides institutionalize terror against class and political enemies. Named here as memory, not spectacle.
This is one scene of Chapter 6 — The Ring of Fire in The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924.
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