By Sergey Petrovich Melgounov (Melgunov)
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Indeed, every page of contemporary Bolshevik press responded with blood. For example, St. Petersburg “Red Paper” of 31 August read regarding Uritscki assassination: “Thousands of enemies will pay for the death of our fighter. Enough trifling... Let us teach a bloody lesson to bourgeoisy... Terrorize the living... death to bourgeoisy – let it become motto of the day”. The same “Red Paper” read regarding an attempt on Lenin 1 September: “We will be killing enemies by the hundreds. Let it be thousands, let them drown in their own blood.
Engels Moses Uritski , a people’s commissar, head of the Northern Commune and St. Petersburg Che Ka was assassinated 17 August 1918 by an ex-student, junker and socialist Leonid Kanegisser. 1 A socialist Kaplan attempted to assassinate Lenin in Moscow on 28 August. What was the soviet government’s response to those to terrorist acts? “By a decree of St. Petersberg Che Ka – as stated by the official article in the “Che Ka Weekly” 20 October (No. 5) – the firing squads executed 500 hostages”. We do not know and probably will never learn an exact figure of the victims – we do not even know the names.
Kozhukhov concentration camp near Moscow alone (in 1921 – 22) imprisoned 313 Tambov peasant hostages, including the babies as young as 1 month and children below 16. Typhus30 devastated those semi-naked (with no warm clothes), starving hostages in the autumn of 1921. We could find the long lists of hostages taken for the deserters, for example in “Red Warrior” 31 . There is a special category for some hostages here: “sentenced to a suspended execution”. 23 An Acting British Consul-General in Moscow at the time of the revolution.