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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: He had promised us not to execute them, but after having waited several days for the reply, he ordered the sentence to…

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He had promised us not to execute them, but after having waited several days for the reply, he ordered the sentence to be carried out secretly early in the morning.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin recounts a broken promise regarding the fate of condemned insurgents, emphasizing the betrayal of trust by authority figures.

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