End of the Kronstadt Uprising 21 March 1921
The Kronstadt Uprising was suppressed by the Soviet government using massive force on Thursday, 21 March 1921. The uprising had been caused as formerly ardent supporters of the Bolshevik revolution had turned against it and the inequalities they saw it was bringing. Before the final collapse of the revolt, the Kronstadt Revolutionary Committee destroyed the Soviet Navy warships Petropavlovsk and Sebastopol. The Kronstadt base held around 15,000 troops, around 800 managed to get across the frozen ice to Finland on foot, others failed in the attempt and many were taken prisoner. The fate of the prisoners was either murder or many years in a camp.
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