1-18 March 1921: The Kronstadt Rebellion—The sailors of the Baltic Fleet, instrumental in the fall of the Provisional Government in the October Revolution yet disillusioned by the persistance of "War Communism" even after the defeat of the Whites everywhere but the Far East, rebelled, demanding autonomy for local "free soviets;" the Bolshevik response was uncompromising & predictably bloody.
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