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Massacres in Russia

  • Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisisAt about noon on the 14th of June, a column of three KamAZ military trucks and a police VAZ-2106 car stopped at the local police station in Budyonnovsk.
  • 1993 Russian constitutional crisisIn January 1992, the Russian government implemented a radical economic reform program that sent prices skyrocketing overnight.
  • Great PurgeThe assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934 marked the beginning of a political purge that would consume millions.
  • Katyn massacreOn the 17th of September 1939, the Red Army advanced into Poland with little resistance. Polish forces under orders from their own government did not engage…
  • Fire of Moscow (1571)On the 23rd of May 1571, Tatar troops set up a camp near Kolomenskoye. Russian voivodes entered Moscow that same day to prepare for the coming storm.