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Red Terror was a program of repression conducted in Russia by the
Bolsheviks in 1918, shortly after the
Russian Revolution in which approximately eight hundred
perceived and real opponents of the Bolsheviks were summarily shot without trial. The decree for Red Terror was issued shortly
following the simultaneous successful assassination of Petrograd Cheka head Moisei Uritsky and attempted
assassination of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin on August 30, 1918.
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