1921 Suppression of the Kronstadt uprising

95 years ago, on March 18, 1921, the Kronstadt uprising was crushed. Soviet troops under the command of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, advancing on the ice of the Gulf of Finland, captured the fortress and began a brutal massacre. 2103 participants in the uprising were sentenced to death, 6459 to various terms of imprisonment. About a thousand more sailors died in battle. Soviet troops lost 527 people killed. The suppression of the uprising was facilitated by the adoption by the 10th Party Congress on March 14 of a resolution to replace the food requisition with a tax in kind and introduce a new economic policy. Considering their goal largely achieved, more than 8,000 insurgents, including the leaders of the uprising, even before the start of the assault, left across the ice to Finland.