Word: stevraki
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Lieutenant Stevraki of the former Imperial Navy was sentenced to death by the Cheka, the extraordinary commission instituted by the Soviet Government to carry on the gruesome business of 'Bolshevik justice...
...Stevraki's crime is 17 years old. In 1905 he took part in the execution of Lieutenant Peter P. Schmidt, com-mander of the Russian cruiser Otcha-kov and leader of what is generally credited as the first genuine communist revolt...
...reported that the Soviet secret police are seeking out people concerned with anti-revolutionist verdicts during the Tsarist regime. These men, when found, are tried, usually found guilty and executed. The case of Stevraki is reported to be the first such case to be made public...
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