Red panic in Russia 1918-1923 – Sergei Mielgunov
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Extraordinary Committee (Czech Republic) – according to the terminology of the Central Committee of the Communist organization is not a court, but "absolute violence". Extraordinary committee “it is not a committee of inquiry, not a court and not a tribunal” – Cheka’s tasks are defined by himself. "It is an organ fighting, acting on the interior front of civilian war. The enemy's Cheka doesn't judge, he shocks. He shows no mercy and burns everyone who is on the another side of the barricade.” It is not hard to imagine how this "absolute violence" should be created, erstwhile functions alternatively of "dead law", another time as "revolutionary experience" and "consumation". Subjectual conscience. Her experience turns into a self-absorbed form of violence, depending on the composition of the performers. We are not at war against individuals," Lacis wrote in "Red Terrorism" on November 1, 1918. We're killing bourgeoisie as class. Do not search for material and evidence in the investigation that the guilty acted by act or word against russian power. First questions you should ask him – what class he belongs to, what his origin, how he is raised, what his education, where he works. These questions should find the defendant's fate. That is the meaning and "the essence of red terror". Lacis was not very original, quoting Robespierre’s words from his speech to the Convention about mass terror: “To punish the enemies of the homeland, it is adequate to establish their identity. We require them not punishment, but destruction." Isn't everything said in this instruction to the judges? However, in order to realize what red panic truly is, which continues with unwavering energy to our day, we must first of all find the actual number of victims. This unprecedented scale of assassinations by the rulers, which we see in Russia, characterises the full strategy of the application of "red terror". Blood statistic is fundamentally erratic, and it is improbable that individual will always succeed. erstwhile the names of only a tiny part actually shot are actually published, erstwhile the death punishment is carried out in the cellars, erstwhile there is no trace of it after the death of a man – a historian in the future is not able to recreate the real image of that reality.
1918
In the above articles, Lacis wrote: “Our citizens and even the environment of our comrades are assured that Cheka carries dozens and hundreds of deaths.” That is true: for a reason society shorthands WCzeka. He reads, paraphrasing “All Humanity Kaput”. Lacis, bringing this fantastic number 22, which I have already written about, calculates the second half of 1918. 4.5 1000 shot. "It is across Russia", i.e. only in 20 central provinces. “If you can blame Cheka for something,” Lacis says, “it is not overexertion to execute, it is simply a tiny performance erstwhile applying the death penalty.” "A strong hand always reduces the number of victims. This fact was not frequently the mark of Chek. Not only should Cheka be blamed, but all russian power should be blamed. We were all besides gentle and generous for the defeated enemy!” 4 and a half 1000 is not adequate for Lacias! He can easy conclude that his authoritative statistic for Cheka is understated. It would be good to know in which box, for example, Lacis placed shot after the uprising in Jarosław, which he organized in June Sawinkow. In the first print of the "Red Book of WCzek" (there is specified a book) spread only in trusted communist circles, "without precedent" was printed as a historical document. The president of the German Commission (functioning thanks to the Brest Agreement), Lieutenant of the Balkans by order No. 4 of 21 July 1918, announced to residents of Jarosław that the Jarosław branch of the North Volunteer Army had surrendered to the aforementioned German Commission. The captives were issued Bolshevik power and 428 of them were first shot. According to my record, 5004 people were shot in this territory during that time. My data, as I said, are incomplete; I mostly utilized what the newspapers published and only those newspapers I managed to get. It should be borne in head that authoritative data were sometimes very laconic and it was hard to discuss the number of victims. For example: Moscow Gubernia (Kliński County) Cheka announced that she had shot a number of counter-revolutionists; Voronezhska Cheka announced that among the arrested “many people were shot”, Siestrorecka Cheka executed after a thorough interrogation, in any case. They decorate newspapers with these short announcements. In specified cases, we took a coefficient, 1 or 3, which means that the digit was much smaller than the actual one. From this bloody statistic 1 can completely exclude evidence about mass murder, accompanying suppression of all kinds of peasants and not just uprisings. The victims of these “excesses” of civilian war were not included in any lists. My data is only indicative values in the sense that they intertwin with the understated authoritative statistic cited by Lacis. The territory of russian Russia is gradually expanding, the territory of Cheka’s “humane” activity is expanding. In 1920, Lacis announced extended statistic according to which the number of people shot in 1918 numbered 6185. Did he join this list of Lacis those thousands that were shot, for example, in 1918 in North-East Russia (Permian province, etc.), about which they speak, so many English reports. "People, of all social classes, mostly peasants, proceed to appear in the English embassy to witness the execution of their families and the surrounding population, by the "bolshevik madmen"... Were there casualties of the “official” war in Kiev added in 1918? It is estimated that 2,000 people have been killed! They shot and chopped with sabers straight in the theatre, where the military were summoned to “check documents”. Were the Austrian army casualties added? “Then,” says 1 of the English clergy, “a associate of the Austrian army staff told me that they were given a list of 400 officers killed in the Odeski district!” Were the victims of the Sevastopol War of Officers attached? Were 1342 victims killed in January, February 1918 in Armavir, as explained by the committee of enquiry on Bolshevik activities, organized by order of General Denikin? And finally, Stawropol's hecatomb, which he writes about in his memoirs W. M. Krasnow – was shot 67, 96... etc.? There was no place where the emergence of Bolsheviks would not be accompanied by dozens and hundreds of victims, shot without a court, or after Chek's judgments or another akin temporal “revolutionary” tribunals. I dedicate a separate chapter to these slaughterhouses – it will be called the “excess of civilian war”.
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IV. AT HOME WAR
Denikina Commission investigating the actions of the Bolsheviks between 1918 and 1919, trying to sum up "red terror" counted 1.700,000 victims. Of the many material of this committee, comparatively small has been published. I have not yet been able to decently examine the archives of the committees in Paris. Meanwhile, statistical results, of course, depend mostly on the methodology adopted in this or another investigation. So far, we are only talking about death, carried out in the “court” or administrative order, i.e. this or another verdict of the “revolutionary” authorities, The actual victims of “red terror” were, of course, much more, as could be seen along the way erstwhile we came to ask questions about choking these, or another uprisings, etc. In this case, it is hard to account for what straight refers to the alleged "excesses" of civilian war, as was the appearance of the "Revolutionary Order", supported by the troops of animal sailors, or "women's criminal expeditions commanded by the Caterpillar of Marusia", as was the case in Essentuki in March 1918, from what is already a planned implementation of the assumptions of "red terror", whether after attacking troops, making massacres with a powerless opponent or innocent civilian population, always goes fighting Cheka. What name does it appear to be, at this minute or at any another time, not matter? These descriptions are rather a lot. Nevertheless, without regretting the nerves of those who read the pages of this book, I will quote a fewer of them, possibly not the most brutal ones, showing the animal brutality of human hatred. Let me start with the peculiar Commission material. Case No 40 – "investigation of the atrocities committed by the Bolsheviks in the town of Taganrod, during the period from 20 January to 17 April 1918". On the night of January 18, 1918, in the town of Tagangrog, the Bolsheviks began to speak, who penetrated the city along with the Red Army soldiers from the Siwers troops... On 20 January, the cadets made a truce and dismissed themselves to the Bolsheviks under unconditional approval to release them from the city. However, the Bolsheviks failed to comply with this condition, and from that moment, the show of “exceptional cruelty” began in relation to the captured prisoners. Officers, cadets, and all who showed help, or even compassion, the Bolsheviks caught all over the city and shot, either on the spot, or on the street, or sent to 1 of the factories where they had the same fate. All day and night in the city, they searched everywhere they could, searching for alleged counter-revolutionarys. The wounded were not spared in the hospital. The Bolsheviks fell into the lazarets, and after uncovering an officer there, or a cadet, dragged him into the street and frequently killed here directly. By stroking on the dying and then over their dead... A terrible death was the death of the captain, the staff officer, the adjutant of the chief of the school of Ensigns: the severely injured, Bolshevik nurses took hands and feet. They rocked him and hit his head against a stone wall. Most of the arrested “contrrevolutionists” were exported to metallurgical, leather factories, but were mostly exported to the Baltic factory. There, they were killed, and the Bolsheviks showed specified cruelty that it even disgusted the workers who protested due to it. In metallurgical plants, the dwarf guards threw 50 cadets and officers into the burning furnace, tying first in half bent legs and hands. The remains of these unfortunates were found in the slag. close the above-mentioned factories, mass shootings and murders were carried out, with the bodies of any of them being so disfigured that it was impossible to admit who they were.
The dead lay long at the place of execution, and relatives were not allowed to take the bodies of their loved ones, leaving them to be eaten by dogs and pigs, animals stretched the corpses of the steppes. After the Bolsheviks were expelled from Taganroski district, police in the company of the D.A.'s supervisors, from 10 to 22 May 1918 dug up the bodies of the murdered, then dissected the corpse, which was meticulously documented in protocols... The individual interviewed as a witness, observing the exhumation, testified personally that she had learned that the victims of the Bolshevik panic had suffered painful torments before her death, and that the very way of depriving herself of life was distinguished by an exaggerated, unjustified cruelty that proved what class hatred and animalization of human nature could lead to. On many bodies, apart from average bullet wounds, marks of beating and cuts in large quantities were visible throughout the body: sometimes these marks showed that the full body was cut; in particular, the face was bruised, any of the heads had no face; there were dead bodies with chopped limbs and ears; any of the corpses had bandaged wounds, which is evidence that they were taken from lazarets and hospitals. There is no difference in the descriptions of the raid and killing in March and April 1918. In all villages of Donsk Military territory and Cuban District. There is no village where there are no casualties, and there is no Landlady station, where 74 officers and 3 women were screwed. Killing women is no exception. In the Jekaterinodar, the wounded are struck with axes, their eyes are plucked off; the same animal is in Nowoczerkask, where 43 officers were killed with peculiar cruelty. The massacres origin uprisings that in specified forms as above are choked. “The past of Cossack uprisings,” notes General Denikin in his “Essays of Russian Sadness” – it is tragic and one-stop”: in June many villages of the Babinian branch were formed – but for those who died in combat, 770 another Cossacks were executed. And really, so inhumane scenes of violence, killing could be cited in tens... specified images of Bolshevik activities could be seen in many cities of Crimea, in Sevastopol, Yalta, Aluszte, Symferopol, Fieodosia. ...
These passages come from the shocking book Red panic in Russia. The book can be purchased by clicking on the image below.
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