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Crimean Cheka Execution Order No. 3

Ротенберг А. И. · 16 September 1921

A 1921 printed order from the Crimean Cheka listing people sentenced to execution, from the period of repression linked to Kun's role on the Crimean committee.

A Cheka execution order from the Crimean repressions during the period Kun oversaw regional revolutionary committees.

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Printed Russian order No. 3 of the Crimean regional Cheka commission, Simferopol, 16 September 1921, listing names and sentences, with the heading 'Приговор приведен в исполнение' and signatures at the bottom.
Crimean Regional Cheka, Order No. 3, Simferopol, 16 September 1921.

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What it is

A printed order, numbered 3, issued by the Crimean regional Cheka commission in Simferopol on 16 September 1921. It lists several named individuals sentenced to execution by firing squad for alleged counter-revolutionary activity, with signatures at the bottom.

Why it matters

This document comes from the period when Béla Kun served on a Crimean revolutionary committee overseeing severe repression after the civil war. It is direct evidence of how Soviet security organs carried out mass executions, and situates Kun within a broader system of state violence beyond his Hungarian leadership.

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