SOVIET MOLOCH
SACRIFICED OVER TWO MILLION VICTIMS TO ENSURE SUCCESS OF REVOLUTION FURTHER MILLION KILLED BY SECRET POLICE BY TELEGRAPH.—PEES’ ASSOCIATION. Copyright. (Rec. February 8, 8.45 p.m.) London, February 7. The “Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent states that in the course of recent celebrations the Soviet published exact details of the victims sacrificed to ensure the success of the revolution. Up to September, 1921, 1,766,000 of both sexes were sent to the scaffold, including 7000 teachers, 9000 doctors, 350,000 intellectuals, 1200 priests, 260,000 soldiers, and 815 peasants. The “Berliner Boersenzeitung” states that it is able to bring the figures up to date from official returns. There were 38,000 executions in 1922, and 112,000 in 1923 (the increase being due to the peasants’ revolt), 80,000 in 1921 (chiefly in connection with the revolt in Georgia), 14,000 in 1925, 3000 in 1926,. and 9574 in 1927, of whom 180 were officers and nobles allegedly connected with British espionage. The total sacrificed to the Soviet Moloch was 2,041,000, apart from another million killed without trial by the secret police.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 112, 9 February 1928, Page 11
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175SOVIET MOLOCH Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 112, 9 February 1928, Page 11
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