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Nearly thirty thousand workers were slaughtered, as is known, not in battle but after they had lost the battle.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Nearly thirty thousand workers were slaughtered, as is known, not in battle but after they had lost the battle.”
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Kropotkin recounts the tragic slaughter of workers following their defeat in the Paris Commune.
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