Thursday, March 6, 2025

The bodies of Japanese soldiers who died in the Manchurian Incident, which broke out on September 18th 1931, were buried in the depths of Manchuria. Japanese soldiers, grieving, buried their comrades' bodies on stretchers in the Manchurian wilderness and said their farewells.

     The Manchurian Incident, which broke out on September 18th 1931, saw the front line spread deeper and deeper into the interior of Manchuria in China. The bodies of Japanese soldiers who had died in the interior of Manchuria were buried in the interior. In winter, the ground would freeze to a depth of two meters, leaving the area a frozen wilderness. Japanese soldiers, overcome with grief, buried their fallen comrades on stretchers and said their final farewells in the Manchurian wilderness.

   On the night of September 18th 1931, the South Manchuria Railway Company's tracks near the Liuqiao Lake in the suburbs of Mukden (now Shenyang) were blown up by officers of the Kwantung Army, a part of the Imperial Japanese Army stationed in Manchuria. The Japanese Army, the owner of the railway, blamed this incident on Chinese nationalists and used it as an excuse to invade Manchuria in retaliation. However, some people suspected that the bomb was planted by Japanese military officers in order to create an excuse for subsequent military action. Within a short period of a few months, the Japanese military had taken control of the Manchurian region. With little resistance from the Chinese military, which had received little training, the Japanese military strengthened its control over the resource-rich Manchurian region. The Japanese military declared that the region would become a new autonomous state called Manchukuo. In reality, the new state was under the control of the local Japanese military.

      On January 14th 1932, a League of Nations investigation team visited China, and on October 2nd the Lytton Commission's report was published. It attributed equal blame for the conflict in Manchuria to Chinese nationalism and Japanese militarism. The report stated that the establishment of the Manchukuo state violated China's territorial integrity and that it would not recognize the new state. On March 27, 1933, when the Lytton Report was ratified at the League of Nations, the Japanese delegation left the meeting and did not return to the Council of the League of Nations. Although Japan and China signed a truce agreement, the agreement left Japan in complete control of Manchuria.



Wednesday, March 5, 2025

After the Allied air raid on Dresden in February 1945, Dresden was reduced to ruins, with corpses lying everywhere, all the buildings destroyed, and thousands of citizens dead.

   After the Allied air raid on Dresden in February 1945, the city was strewn with corpses. Dresden had been reduced to ruins, all the buildings had been destroyed, and thousands of citizens had died. The city had suffered great damage, and all the buildings and famous landmarks had been destroyed by the ruthless aerial bombing. The Allied bombing method was to first expose the wooden frames of the buildings with high-explosive bombs, then ignite the wood with incendiary bombs, and finally bomb the area to prevent firefighting efforts. When World War II ended, investigators and journalists estimated the number of dead in Dresden to be between 10,000 and 200,000.

   On the night of February 13th 1945, British RAF bombers dropped thousands of bombs in just a few hours. Dresden's defenses were very weak, and only six Lancaster bombers were shot down, and by the next morning, British RAF bombers had dropped over 14,000 tons of high-explosive bombs and over 1,100 tons of incendiary bombs on Dresden. The attack destroyed most of Dresden's infrastructure and killed thousands of people.

   When the survivors fled the smoldering city on February 14, 1945, the US Air Force began bombing Dresden's roads, bridges, railways and houses, killing thousands more. On February 15, another 200 US bombers continued the attack on Dresden. On February 15, the Americans dropped 950 tons of high-explosive bombs and more than 290 tons of incendiary bombs. Later, the US 8th Air Force dropped more than 2,800 tons of bombs on Dresden in three attacks before the end of the war.

  As the Soviet Red Army grew stronger and occupied city after city, Hitler defended Berlin with all his might. Dresden, which had offered only minimal resistance until the occupation of Berlin, was targeted for saturation bombing. The industrial and civilian areas of the city were destroyed along with the German military units. The Allied Command determined that the attack would devastate the German economy, demoralize the German people, and force an early surrender.



Monday, March 3, 2025

At the behest of American soldiers, on May 17th 1945, the surviving residents of the town of Namerling, as well as German boys, were shown the corpses of the approximately 800 victims of Nazi Germany's massacres, and were shocked.

  At the order of American soldiers, on May 17th 1945, the surviving residents of the town of Namerling, as well as German boys, were shocked to be shown the corpses of the approximately 800 victims of Nazi Germany's massacres. The corpses of prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp who had died during the death marches were made to be buried by the residents of the area near Namerling, who were made to dig the graves.

  After the liberation of Buchenwald on April 11th 1945, the bodies of thousands more prisoners were discovered in places such as Ravensbrück and Dachau. In many large and small camps, the Western Allied Forces discovered a situation of Holocaust proportions that exceeded their imagination. General Eisenhower, along with General George Patton and General Omar Bradley, visited the small camp at Oldendorf near Weimar and witnessed the tragic scene on April 12th 1945. They then sent photographers to document the scene. With the Allied invasion, the massacres that took place in concentration camps became a product of a certain madness.

  General Eisenhower, like the Russian commanders, ordered not only the Allied soldiers but also the Germans to see the massacres at Ordruf. He ordered the people of many towns to pass through the camps, including their children. The Germans were drafted to help bury the piles of dead prisoners. In Leipzig, he ordered the mayor to provide coffins to hold the bodies of 75 prisoners from the Leipzig-Mokau concentration camp. The prisoners were locked in barracks and burned alive. Prisoners who tried to escape were shot by the Hitler Youth on tanks. A funeral and burial ceremony was held at the Leipzig communal cemetery for the dead prisoners, and all the city officials were ordered to attend the ceremony, which was presided over by Christian and Jewish military chaplains. In addition, 900 other Germans came voluntarily to lay flowers on the graves. Mayor Oldorf did not get away with it, and he and his wife later committed suicide.



On March 10, 1944, on a snow-covered plateau on the Western Front of World War II, 28-year-old Théodose Morel, a leader of the French Resistance, was killed in action during a battle with the Vichy regime's Gendarmerie Militaire (GMR).

   On the Western Front during World War II, on March 10th 1944, 28-year-old Théodore Morel, a leader of the French Resistance, was killed in action during a battle with the GMR (the Vichy government's organized paramilitary National Guard). A solemn funeral was held for all of the maquisards on the snow-covered plateau. As the days passed, the Vichy regime's grip on Grières tightened. On March 25, the German troops of the 157th Alpine Division prepared their positions for an attack on March 26.

  The Maquis de Glières was a Free French resistance group that fought against the German occupation of France during the Second World War from 1940 to 1944. The operation against the Maquis in Haute-Savoie was triggered by the discovery of the bodies of several policemen who had been killed. The Maquis benefited from the arrival of 120 fighters from Chablais and Giffre. Morel led a more dangerous operation against the GMR troops in Entremont on the Plateau de Glières. GMR commander Lefebvre, who arrived on March 7, refused to talk to the Maquis. On March 9 and 10, more than 100 Maquis took part in the operation. The unit under Morel's direct command succeeded in capturing the French Hotel where the GMR members were staying. The captured GMR members laid down their arms, but Lefebvre took out a gun he had hidden and fired at Morel from close range, hitting him in the heart and killing him instantly. Lefebvre was also killed by the Maquis immediately afterwards.

  On March 26th 1944, the German army turned the offensive. A German patrol unit, a mountain corps, attacked the exit of the plateau and occupied the forward base in the rear. The Maquis were overwhelmed by the Germans, who outnumbered them, and were ordered to retreat. In the days that followed, the Germans killed 120 Maquis.The damage and defeat in the Savoie region gave a boost to the French Resistance in the spring of 1944.




Sunday, March 2, 2025

Akira Yamaguchi suffered burns to his face and forearms in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The survivors of the bombing were left with keloid scars from their burns.

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During a meeting in the Oval Office on February 28, 2025, President Donald Trump abruptly canceled the signing of a mineral deal after accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of being “rude.”

  President Donald Trump abruptly canceled the signing of a mineral deal during a meeting in the Oval Office on February 28, 2025, accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of being “rude.” President Zelensky left the White House without signing the mineral deal after a tense meeting in Trump's Oval Office in Washington.

  The surprising turn of events could disrupt the situation in Europe and around the world. During his visit with President Trump, President Zelensky was scheduled to sign an agreement that would allow the US to obtain more of Ukraine's rare earth minerals and hold a joint press conference. After the two leaders engaged in a heated argument in front of the press, the plan was scrapped.

  President Trump insisted that it was essential for Ukraine to repay the US for the more than $180 billion in aid sent to the government in Kiev since the start of the war. It is unclear what this latest tit-for-tat means. It is also not yet clear what, if anything, President Trump wants from President Zelensky to get this deal back on track.

  The Ukrainian leader was asked to leave the White House by President Trump shortly after Trump had shouted at him and shown him open contempt, saying, “You're betting on World War III. What you're doing is very disrespectful to this country that has supported you more than most people know.”

  The last 10 minutes of the 45-minute meeting saw a tense exchange between President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and President Zelensky. President Zelensky cited Moscow's long history of broken promises on the world stage, prompting skepticism about Russia's commitment to diplomacy.

  Zelensky's main aim was to pressure Trump not to abandon his country and to warn him not to get too close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead, he was shouted down and Trump looked like a drama actor performing for the cameras.





















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Friday, February 28, 2025

In the Spartacist uprising, on September 3, 1919, fighting broke out in public places in the streets of Berlin between the German government army and the Spartacists, and the dead, the injured, and the dead collapsed in the street.

  On September 3rd 1919, during the Spartacist uprising that followed Germany's defeat in World War I, there was fighting in public places in the streets of Berlin between the security forces of the German government and the Spartacists. People were shot dead in the streets, and the streets were strewn with bodies. The fighting, which resulted in many deaths, left the dead, injured and dying lying in the streets.

  In January 1919, the Spartacus Revolution took a decisive and violent turn. After the Spartacus uprising broke out in Berlin and the coalition government of the SPD and USPD collapsed, the uprising flared up in the capital city of Berlin. On January 5th, the Spartacus League incited revolutionary workers and soldiers to revolt and declared the dissolution of the People's Deputies Assembly. Left-wing extremists occupied a publishing house in Berlin and formed a revolutionary committee. After negotiations with the People's Representative Assembly broke down, Gustav Noske, the Minister of Defense of the Weimar Republic, ordered the German Imperial Army to suppress the rebellion. The Imperial Army strengthened its position through ruthless street fighting, which resembled a civil war in Germany. The violence of the Spartacus Rebellion did not end with defeat. As part of a political cleansing operation, the Weimar army and the Freikorps searched every working-class district in Berlin to find and intern revolutionary workers.

  After the cleansing operation, the Spartacist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were arrested, interrogated and shot. The uprising was suppressed throughout Germany. The military power of the Communist Party was dealt a devastating blow within Germany. Despite the uprisings and threats from both left and right, the Ebert government and its successor, the Weimar government, continued until the 1930s, when the fascists of Nazism rose to power.





Thursday, February 27, 2025

In October 1910, a young man was killed by the Taiwanese highland aborigines in Taito-cho, Taito-gun, when they decapitated him as part of a “decapitation” ceremony. The body and head of the young man were separated.

   In October 1910, young men were killed by the Taiwanese highland aborigines in Taito-cho, Taito-gun, when they decapitated their enemies in a “decapitation” attack. The corpses of the young men were decapitated, and their limbs were bound with iron wire and steel wire. When Japan used its power as the ruling authority to forcibly suppress the Taiwanese mountain tribes, who had completely different lifestyles, conflict broke out.

    The Taiwanese mountain tribes carried out headhunting, which they called “de-cao”. They would lie in wait for their enemies and shoot them dead with guns, or they would fight them and take them down. After that, they would sever their enemies' heads with a crude sword. The mountain tribespeople would collect the severed heads and display them on a shelf. The mountain tribespeople who went out to “cut off heads” were respected as brave men in their villages.

    In 1895, Japan, having won the First Sino-Japanese War, took over Taiwan from China and began to rule it. Based on the classification system used during the Qing Dynasty, Japan divided the indigenous people into the “Pingpu” and “Koushan” tribes. The aborigines also became guerrillas in the anti-Japanese resistance movement. The Beipu Incident occurred in 1907, and the Wusha Incident broke out in 1930. In 1935, at the request of Prince Chichibu Yoshinobu, the name of the high mountain tribe was changed to “Takasago”. Japanese language functioned as a common language between the tribes of Taiwan, which had different languages. The Japanese Governor-General's Office implemented a policy of land expropriation and assimilation through police force against the Taiwanese aborigines, who were referred to as “savage tribes” under the “unowned land” theory.

      They are a minority group that accounts for about 1.9% (as of 2001) of the total population of about 22.34 million in Taiwan. The Taiwanese society is made up of about 19% aborigines out of the total population of about 22.34 million, with the majority being Han Chinese. The mountain aborigines lived in the mountains, farming and hunting, with their own unique culture. However, in recent years, due to coexistence with the majority Han Chinese, there has been an increase in migration to urban areas due to mountain development and the introduction of capitalism, and changes have occurred in their way of life and culture.



 

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The Soviet Red Army fought against the rebels in the fortress of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, and it became a hand-to-hand battle. On the morning of March 18th, the island was placed under the control of the Red Army.

   On the night of March 16-17, 1921, the final attack by 50,000 Soviet Red Army troops began against the uprising that had broken out on March 7 in the Russian port city of Kronstadt. Trotsky's main force of Red Army troops attacked from the south, from Oranienbaum and St. Petersburg. The garrison numbered between 12,000 and 14,000 men, of whom 10,000 were sailors and the rest infantry. The Red Army approached the fortress on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, and fighting broke out, with hand-to-hand combat. By the morning of March 18, the island was under Communist control. Hundreds of mutinous prisoners were massacred. Some of the defeated mutineers, including their leaders, escaped.

  The crews of the battleships Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol fought to the last man, as did the cadets of the engineering school, the torpedo detachment and the communications unit. 6,528 mutineers were arrested, 2,168 (33%) were shot, 1,955 were sentenced to forced labor, of which 1,486 were given five-year sentences, and 1,272 were released. A statistical survey of the 1935-6 uprising put the number of arrests at 10,026. The families of the rebels were deported, and Siberia was seen as the only suitable place of exile.

  The Soviet army suffered over 10,000 casualties in the attack on Kronstadt. The number of dead rebels and those shot by the Cheka and sent to the gulag is unknown. Immediately after the defeat of the mutiny, 4,836 Kronstadt sailors were arrested and exiled to the Crimea and the Caucasus. Lenin sent them to forced labor camps on April 19th. 8,000 sailors, soldiers and civilians escaped to Finland on the ice. The Finnish government later asked the Soviet Red Army to remove the thousands of bodies lying on the frozen bay.



Tuesday, February 25, 2025

In 1943, the bodies of those killed by the German army were recovered from the mines in Kadiufka. On July 12, 1942, the German army occupied Kadiufka in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

 In 1943, the bodies of those killed by the German army were recovered from the mines in Kadiufka. On July 12th 1942, during the Second World War, the German army occupied Kadiufka in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

 In 1942, the Soviet Union's military and government forces withdrew from Kadiivka. After that, the town of Kadiivka was invaded and came under the control of the German army. During the German occupation, individual partisans, including partisan units, fought against the German occupying forces in Kadiivka. After being liberated from the German army, the town returned to its original name of Kadiufka, which it retained until 1978.

 In the Russian settlement of Stalino, in the Donbass, the German army killed 13,854 civilians and 10,260 Soviet prisoners of war on April 4 and 5, 1943. The majority of these killings were carried out by the German army and its allies. During the Donbas Operation (August 13 - September 22, 1943), the Soviet army carried out a strategic military operation to liberate the Donets Basin from Nazi Germany. The Soviet army suffered 273,500 casualties. The casualties of the German army are unknown.

 Due to the Russo-Ukrainian War that broke out on February 24, 2022, the Russian military invaded Ukraine and launched a military offensive in the Donbass region from April 18, 2022. The Russian army invaded, surrounded the Ukrainian army in Donbass, and on April 29th, annexed the entire Donetsk and Luhansk regions to the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), which are separatist states supported by pro-Russian factions.



Monday, February 24, 2025

During the Battle of Okinawa, a battle that took place on May 10th 1945, American Marine Corps soldiers were killed by the Japanese army during the battle to cross the Aja River. After this, the dead bodies of the Marines were carried away on stretchers and placed on Amtrak trains.

 During the Battle of Okinawa, American Marine Corps soldiers were killed by the Japanese Army during the battle to cross the Aja River on May 10th 1945. The bodies of the dead Marines were then transported on stretchers and placed on Amtrak trains.

  Early on the morning of May 10th, the American army crossed the Aja River to the west of Uchima and moved south. The bridge demolition unit dispatched from the Japanese army's Independent 2nd Battalion, which was in charge of defending the area, successfully blew up the bridge, preventing the American army from crossing the river. The bridge demolition unit suffered one casualty, a Japanese soldier. The Japanese army's Independent 2nd Battalion worked to stop the invading American army. Gradually, the American military forces were reinforced, and by the evening of May 10, the American military had occupied the east-west line of the Aja village. The Japanese military also came under strong attack in the Uchima area. The Japanese military secured the high ground to the northeast of Uchima and prevented the American military from advancing.

  From the night of May 10th to the early hours of May 11th, the US Army Corps of Engineers built a pontoon bridge over the Aja River in the midst of heavy gunfire, and the tanks and heavy artillery of the US Army's support units crossed the river. From the high ground of Shuri in Okinawa, the Aja coast was in full view. The Japanese Army continued to fire from the artillery positions in the hills to the west of Shuri. The Japanese infantry also resisted the American forces fiercely in coordination with the artillery. Even in the midst of the Japanese artillery fire, the Marines advanced. An American battalion climbed to the top of a hill 800 meters south of Aja, but the Japanese defenses were strong, and in the end all the American soldiers were killed or wounded, with the exception of one flamethrower operator.

   The Japanese army's position, built on the hills to the north of the fierce battleground of Azato, was called “Suribachi Hill” by the Japanese army and “Sugar Loaf” by the Americans. The hills in the area were a key point in the Japanese army's defense of Shuri, and fierce battles were fought with the US 6th Marine Division. In particular, the battle for Kerama was a fierce battle that saw the summit repeatedly change hands four times in a single day between May 12th and May 18th, 1945, and the Americans finally gained control on May 18th. The American military suffered 2,662 casualties and 1,289 cases of post-traumatic stress disorder in the Battle of Sugar Loaf. The number of casualties among the Japanese military is unknown, but there were many casualties among the student corps and local residents.



Sunday, February 23, 2025

The 25-year-old woman still had a deep scar on the spot where she had received a laceration from flying glass when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on April 23, 1947.

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Saturday, February 22, 2025

In the Gaza Strip, Palestine, during the Israel-Palestine War, Al Jazeera journalist Ahmad Baker Al-Ruhu (right) and three members of the Civil Defense were killed in an Israeli air strike on December 15, 2024.

  In the Israel-Palestine war, Al Jazeera journalist Ahmad Baker Al-Ruhu (right) and three members of the Civil Defense were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip on December 15, 2024. Al-Ruhu was wearing a helmet and a waistcoat for the press. At the funeral held in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, on December 16, mourners prayed in front of the body of the man who had been killed in the Israeli air strike the day before.

  According to Al Jazeera, Ahmad Baker al-Ruhu, 39, was killed while documenting the rescue of family members injured in a previous explosion. According to a report published last week by the International Federation of Journalists, more than half of the 104 journalists and media workers killed in 2024 died in Gaza. Three members of the civil defense, including the local head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, were also killed in the attack, according to a report from the hospital. The Hamas-run government oversees the civil defense, Gaza's main rescue organization. The Israeli military said the airstrike targeted Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists in a command center inside the civil defense headquarters. A journalist colleague in Gaza refuted al-Ruh's accusation of Islamic Jihad membership.

  The Palestinian health ministry updated the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 45,028 on December 16. It warned that the real number of casualties was likely to be much higher, as 106,962 people had been injured since the war began and thousands of bodies were buried under the rubble in places where medics could not reach them. The ministry's figures do not distinguish between combatants and civilians, but women and children account for more than half of the dead. Without any evidence, the Israeli military claims to have killed more than 17,000 terrorists. The dead represent about 2% of Gaza's pre-war population of just over 2.3 million, the worst toll in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.













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Friday, February 21, 2025

During the Battle of Okinawa in mid-June 1945, a member of the Tekketsu-Kinko-tai, a group of teenage boys who had been injured and were close to death, was dragged out of a cave near Mabuni by the US Army during a mopping-up operation.

     During the Battle of Okinawa in mid-June 1945, a member of the Tekketsu-Kin'ōtai, a group of teenage boys who had been injured and were on the verge of death, was dragged out of a cave near Mabuni by American soldiers. A seriously injured member of the Tekketsu-Kin'ōtai was dragged out of a cave by American soldiers. The Tekketsu-Kin'ōtai was incorporated into a regular unit during the Battle of Okinawa, and actually participated in combat, resulting in many casualties.

  The Tekketsu-Kinko-tai was the first unit of young soldiers in Japanese military history, made up of students aged 14 to 16, who were mobilized for defense conscription in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, at the end of World War II. The defense conscription, which was different from the “wait for orders” system, was based on a revision of the Army Ministry Ordinance in October 1942, and during the wait for orders, they were engaged in civilian work and were only called up to defend the country when necessary. In Okinawa, where the arrival of the Allied forces was imminent, boys aged between 14 and 17 were called up for national defense as the Tekketsu Kin'o-tai. Students from the Okinawa Normal School were assigned to the 32nd Army Headquarters, and were divided into the Chihaya-tai, which was in charge of intelligence work, the Senjo Chikujotai, which was responsible for digging trenches and repairing roads and bridges that had been destroyed by bombing, and the Zankotai, which was in charge of guarding the headquarters bunker.

   The Iron Blood Loyalist Corps of Okinawa's teenage youth suffered tragic and enormous losses. During the war, there were 12 boys' junior high schools and 10 girls' schools in Okinawa. All of the students in these schools were mobilized to the front lines under close supervision by the Okinawa Defense Force, the prefectural authorities, and the school authorities, and the majority of them were killed. More than 1,786 male students were mobilized into the military, and more than 921 of them were killed in action. Of the 735 female students, 296 were killed. Teenage boys and girls were sent to the front without any legal basis. Teenage boys and girls in Okinawa were sent to the front without any legal basis. The “Volunteer Soldiers Act” was promulgated and came into force on the 23rd of June, the day after the leaders of the Okinawa Defense Force Headquarters committed suicide on the 22nd of June 1945. It became possible to send men from the Japanese mainland aged between 15 and 60, and women aged between 17 and 40, to the front as combatants.


 




















Thursday, February 20, 2025

During the Russian Civil War, the bodies of prisoners who had been injured and poisoned by the White Army's Denikin forces were scattered around before the White Army withdrew from Bakhmut in Ukraine in 1919.

  During the Russian Civil War, the bodies of prisoners who had been poisoned by the White Army's Denikin forces lay scattered around the town of Bakhmut in Ukraine before the White Army withdrew in 1919. The bodies of the injured prisoners had been mutilated and cut up. The White Army was an armed force of the anti-Bolshevik government that fought against the Red Army of Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War.

  In Luhansk, in the Donbas region of Ukraine, the Cheka (Soviet secret police) killed all the former officers they found in the town. Engineers and technicians were assaulted by workers. When the White Army retreated, the workers attacked the engineers and technicians. Even those who sympathized with the Soviet government attacked them, saying that it was time for revenge. Many tragic deaths resulted. The Soviet government also did not fully trust the engineers and technicians who had sided with the White Army. In December 1919, half of the mining experts fled the Donbass region with the defeated White Army. In Kamensk, east of Luhansk, the bodies were left in the streets for several days.

  White terror in Russia refers to the systematic violence and mass killings carried out by the White Army during the Russian Civil War (1917-1923). It began after the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 and continued until the White Army was defeated by the Red Army. The White Army, supported by the Triple Entente, fought against the Bolshevik forces, while the Bolsheviks concentrated on their own Red terror. It is estimated that a total of around 300,000 people died as a result of this series of organized acts of violence. After Kornilov was killed in April 1918, leadership of the volunteer army passed to Anton Denikin.