Even those who were acquitted by the courts were banished by the gendarmes to little hamlets in Siberia and North-east Russia, where they had to starve on the government allowance of six shillings per month.
Kropotkin describes the dire conditions faced by those exiled to remote areas of Siberia after being acquitted.
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