6 April-3 May 1919: The Bavarian Soviet Republic—Communists seized power in Munich after the demise of the anarchistic People's State of Bavaria, which had come to power in November 1918; the Räterepublik was led by a troika of Russian émigrés, who instituted a bloody "Red Terror;" Weimar's authority was reestablished by a coalition of Freikorps after heavy street fighting in Munich.
Lest we forget.
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