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15th January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by members of the Freikorps after the Spartacist Revolt

15th January 2023
Tagged as: Berlin, Communism, Ebert, First World War, Freikorps, Germany, Revolution, Socialism, Spartacist Revolt, Uprising, Wilhelm II

The two German socialists were joint-founders of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany, and were captured following the Spartacist uprising that began on 4 January.

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27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’

27th December 2021
Tagged as: Communism, Dekulakization, Kulak, Socialism, Stalin, Ukraine, USSR

The Soviet dekulakisation campaign began when Joseph Stalin announced the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’.

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15th January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by members of the Freikorps after the Spartacist Revolt

27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

2nd June 1962: Chile and Italy meet in the World Cup’s violent ‘Battle of Santiago’

1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

31st May 1669: Samuel Pepys writes the final entry of his famous diary that records the period of the Restoration

30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants’ Revolt in England

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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