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Red Terror

Red Terror

The Red Terror was a campaign of political repression and executions in Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine, as well as occupied territories in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Finland, which was carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the... Wikipedia
Start date: September 2, 1918
End date: 1922
Date: August 1918 – February 1922
Deaths: 50,000–200,000 (possibly more)
Target: Anti-Bolshevik groups, clergy, rival socialists, counter-revolutionaries, peasants, and dissidents
Organized by: Cheka