context: Political repressions in Soviet Russia began immediately after the October Revolution of 1917 (see Red Terror, talkative talk). Moreover, the victims of repression were not only the active political opponents of the Bolsheviks, but also people who simply expressed disagreement with their policies. Repressions were also carried out on a social basis (against former police officers, gendarmes, tsarist government officials, priests, as well as former landowners and entrepreneurs).
question: In what year did the political repressions begin in the USSR?
answers.text: 1917