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1
Q

What date was Bloody Sunday?

A

9th January 1905

2
Q

How many died on Bloody Sunday, 1905?

A

around 190

3
Q

How many died paying their respects to the mutiny on Battleship Potemkin?

A

2000

4
Q

How many died in the Lena Goldfields massacre in 1912?

A

500

5
Q

How many soldiers died in the WW1 battle of Tannenburg leading to the retreat from Prussia?

A

300,000

6
Q

When was the former Tsar executed along with his family?

A

July 1918

7
Q

How many demonstrated at the 1917 anniversary of Bloody Sunday?

A

150,000

8
Q

What years are referred to as the Red Terror?

A

1918-21

9
Q

What years are referred to as ‘The Great Purges?’

A

1936-38

10
Q

How many died under the ‘Red Terror?’

A

500,000

11
Q

How many were sent to Gulags in 1931 alone?

A

1,803,329

12
Q

How many died in the Gulags between 1934-1953?

A

1,053,892

13
Q

How many prisoners died building the White Sea Canal?

A

25,000

14
Q

How many were executed at the Shakty Show Trial?

A

5 executed

15
Q

How many were put on trial at the Shakty Show Trial?

A

53

16
Q

How many were on the original arrest list of the Yezhovschina?

A

250,000

17
Q

At the end of the ‘mass cleansings,’ how many returned home from the gulags?

A

327,000

18
Q

How many party members were executed during Stalin’s purges?

A

600,000

19
Q

How many were sentenced to death under the ‘Not One Step Backwards,’ order?

A

150,000

20
Q

How many starved to death during the second world war?

A

25 million

21
Q

What was the death rate in the labour camps by 1942?

A

25%

22
Q

What percentage of ammunition was supplied by slave labour?

A

15%

23
Q

How many doctors were sentenced to execution after the Doctor’s Plot Investigation?

A

9, but Stalin died before they were executed.

24
Q

How many of the sentenced Doctors involved in the doctors plot died in prison before the case was reviewed?

A

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