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Red Terror
The Red Terror was a campaign of mass arrests and deportations targeted against counterrevolutionaries in Russia during the Russian Civil War. It was initiated and conducted by the Bolsheviks as retribution for the simultaneous successful assassination of Petrograd Cheka leader Moisei Uritsky, and attempted assassination of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin by Fanya Kaplan on August 30, 1918.
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