There were such cases as that of a girl who got nine years’ hard labour and life exile to Siberia, for giving one socialist pamphlet to a worker: that was all her crime.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “There were such cases as that of a girl who got nine years’ hard labour and life exile to Siberia, for giving one…”
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This quote highlights the harsh penalties faced by individuals for minor acts of political dissent in Russia.
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