1918 Liquidation of anarchist detachments in Moscow
95 years ago, on April 12, 1918, at 3 o'clock in the morning, Chekists and police raided 26 buildings occupied by armed anarchist detachments without warning. More than a hundred of them were killed in skirmishes, and five hundred people were arrested. In the afternoon, the British and American envoys in Moscow, Bruce Lockhart and Raymond Robbins, at the invitation of Dzerzhinsky, visited several anarchist clubs in a car provided to them with armed guards. The bodies have not yet been removed.