SOVIET MOLOCH
VICTIMS SACRIFICED SHOCKING STATISTICS LIST OF EXECUTIONS (United Prees Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, 7th February. The "Morning Post's" Berlin correspondent states that in tho course of recent celebrations the Soviet published exact details of tho victims sacrificed to ensure the success of the revolution. Up to September, 1921, 1,766,000 of both sexes were sent to the scaffold, in luding 7000 teachers, 9000 doctors, 350,000 intellectuals, 1200 priests, 200,000 soldiers, and Sls peasants. Tho "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 1924 (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. Tho 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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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 33, 9 February 1928, Page 9
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