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October 1919. Baltic States and Petrograd
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Airapetov

[Regnum] On October 16, the Defense Council decided "... to hold Petrograd at all costs until the arrival of reinforcements that have already been sent ... Therefore, to defend Petrograd to the last drop of blood, not yielding a single inch and fighting on the streets of the city." On the same day, Trotsky decided:

Posted by: badanov 2022-07-06
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