I wonder how many of the "Soviet executions" can be chalked up to them just saying they killed people but actually just letting them dip out.
I wonder how many of the "Soviet executions" can be chalked up to them just saying they killed people but actually just letting them dip out.
On July 7 and 8, the Soviet government arrested the leaders of the Left SR army. The German embassy demanded that the Soviet government execute all those responsible for the murder of the German ambassador, including all members of the Central Committee of the Left SRs. 650 members of the Left-SR Party were taken into custody for questioning. The Soviet government announced the next day that 200 had been shot, to the approval of the German government.
reality, 12 sailors were executed. The Revolutionary Tribunal tried the Left SR Central Committee, though most of its members had gone underground. Those convicted received sentences of less than a year, for it was found that the party organisation had little involvement with the assassination.
There's something funny about a government exaggerating the number of people they actually executed by 10 fold.