Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
— Leon Trotsky Modern

Russian revolutionary

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General attribution, reflecting his role in the Red Army and Cheka.

Date / Period

Early 1920s

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Strange & Unusual

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