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...would like to draw your attention to the fact that from memoirs of Count Kokovtzev and Count Witte, both liberal Prime Ministers of the Russian Empire during those years, it appears that the "massacre" to which you refer, amounted to eighty-nine people killed and wounded before the Winter Palace on Jan. 9, 1905.* No one, least of all myself, excuses this action, but I think that in your plan you could have made another notation, that near the Prisons of Kristi, in December 1917, by order of the Soviet Government, 2,760 people were executed in two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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