Blagoveshchensk massacre

The Blagoveshchensk massacre refers to a series of mass murder committed by the Red Guards ‒ a group of Bolshevik paramilitary volunteer formations ‒ in the Russian Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk.

Events

Thousands of residents in the city were killed. As reported by Chekist I. P. Pavlunovsky in 1922:Тепляков, Алексей Георгиевич (2015). "Суд над террором: партизан Яков Тряпицын и его подручные в материалах судебного заседания". "АТАМАНЩИНА" И "ПАРТИЗАНЩИНА" В ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ ВОЙНЕ: ИДЕОЛОГИЯ, ВОЕННОЕ УЧАСТИЕ, КАДРЫ: 719-728. – via Russian Science Citation Index.

The press reported the Red Guards' terror in Blagoveshchensk in spring 1919:

I. I. Zhukovsky-Zhuk, a Russian Far Eastern Socialist-Revolutionaries-Maximalist, wrote:

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Vladivostok massacre

In April 1920, P. V. Volgodsky, former head of the anti-Bolshevik Kolchak's government, met in Shanghai with two officers who had fled the Red Terror in Vladivostok, and said:

Related pages

 Russian Civil War
 NKVD prisoner massacres
 Genocides by the Soviet Union

References

Category:Massacres
Category:History of the Soviet Union
Category:Soviet crimes against humanity