Yet not less than fifteen hundred persons were arrested during this hunt, and half of them were kept in prison for years.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Yet not less than fifteen hundred persons were arrested during this hunt, and half of them were kept in prison for…”
Editor's note · Context
This passage underscores the scale of repression faced by revolutionaries during a police crackdown.
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