Martin Antonenko
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The revenge of the new masters!
On July 6, 1918, in the hitherto prosperous Russian industrial city of Yaroslavl...
...at the mouth of the Kotorosl River in the Volga in the European part of the country, 282 kilometers north-east of Moscow, an uprising against the new masters of Russia erupted.
Some conservative (and mostly pro-Tsar) activists want to shake off the oppressive regime of the Bolsheviks, who seized power with their coup in October 1917.
They are joined by many residents from bourgeois circles - but also many workers, on whose loyalty the Bolsheviks have been able to count so far, who are now thoroughly fed up with the "war communism" of the new authorities and their dreaded secret police "Cheka"!
This is the only way to explain why the insurgents managed to drive the "red" troops out of the city by July 21 and arrested and imprisoned those who could not flee, and there were also deaths...:
The "headquarters" in Moscow reacted to the events both immediately and ruthlessly:
New troops are hurriedly brought in, which at first completely surround Yaroslavl. It is mainly soldiers from Asian minorities who are deployed - they hardly speak or read Russian (or not at all) and therefore cannot communicate with the insurgents (and therefore cannot show solidarity! The Bolsheviks used this tactic repeatedly successfully, for example in the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising in 1921 - and also the current Russian leadership, which at the beginning of the war in the Ukraine deployed almost exclusively troops from the Far East and Buryatia).
Then Bolshevik artillery began shelling the city according to plan...
... supported by red air forces dropping bombs over Yaroslavl.
More than 2,000 buildings are destroyed or severely damaged, and over 600 residents die!
When Yaroslavl has to surrender to the Bolsheviks at mercy or disgrace, armed units of the "Cheka" are the first to move into the city...
... because now the revenge of the new masters begins!
Anyone who appears remotely suspect of having taken an active part in the uprising or even sympathized with it will be arrested.
On July 28, 1918, after short and summary "trials", members of the Cheka shoot 428 residents of the city...
On July 6, 1918, in the hitherto prosperous Russian industrial city of Yaroslavl...
...at the mouth of the Kotorosl River in the Volga in the European part of the country, 282 kilometers north-east of Moscow, an uprising against the new masters of Russia erupted.
Some conservative (and mostly pro-Tsar) activists want to shake off the oppressive regime of the Bolsheviks, who seized power with their coup in October 1917.
They are joined by many residents from bourgeois circles - but also many workers, on whose loyalty the Bolsheviks have been able to count so far, who are now thoroughly fed up with the "war communism" of the new authorities and their dreaded secret police "Cheka"!
This is the only way to explain why the insurgents managed to drive the "red" troops out of the city by July 21 and arrested and imprisoned those who could not flee, and there were also deaths...:
The "headquarters" in Moscow reacted to the events both immediately and ruthlessly:
New troops are hurriedly brought in, which at first completely surround Yaroslavl. It is mainly soldiers from Asian minorities who are deployed - they hardly speak or read Russian (or not at all) and therefore cannot communicate with the insurgents (and therefore cannot show solidarity! The Bolsheviks used this tactic repeatedly successfully, for example in the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising in 1921 - and also the current Russian leadership, which at the beginning of the war in the Ukraine deployed almost exclusively troops from the Far East and Buryatia).
Then Bolshevik artillery began shelling the city according to plan...
... supported by red air forces dropping bombs over Yaroslavl.
More than 2,000 buildings are destroyed or severely damaged, and over 600 residents die!
When Yaroslavl has to surrender to the Bolsheviks at mercy or disgrace, armed units of the "Cheka" are the first to move into the city...
... because now the revenge of the new masters begins!
Anyone who appears remotely suspect of having taken an active part in the uprising or even sympathized with it will be arrested.
On July 28, 1918, after short and summary "trials", members of the Cheka shoot 428 residents of the city...
