THE SOVIET MOLOCH
COST OF RED REVOLUTION TWO MILLIONS EXECUTED OFFICIAL DETAILS GIVEN TEN YEARS OF BLOODSHED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 8, 8.45 p.m. A. and N.Z. London, Feb. 7. The Morning Post’s Berlin correspondent states that in the course of the recent celebrations the Soviet published exact details of the victims sacrificed to ensure the success of the revolution. A total of 1,766,000 of both sexes were sent to the scaffold up to September, 1921, including 7,000 teachers, 9,000 doctors, 350,000 intellectuals, 1,200 priests, 260,000 soldiers, and 815 peasants. The Berliner Boersenzeitung states 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 peasants revolting); 80,000 in 1924 (chiefly in connection with the revolt in Georgia); 14,000 in 1925; 3,000 in 1926, and 9,574 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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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1928, Page 9
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