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3 +6 | attacking the Winter palace |
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attacking the Winter palace Explanation: * -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-07-19 15:05:48 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/november_1917.htm Throughout the 7th the Red Guards kept on occupying important buildings. By mid-afternoon, the only building not held by the Bolsheviks was the Winter Palace, the old home of the tsar. It was here that the Provisional Government met. In fact, the troops who were meant to be defending the building had gone home and only the Women’s Battalion remained. The sign for the Red Guards to attack the Winter Palace was a shell fired by the naval ship the \"Aurora\". The attack was short lived and any opposition was easily overcome. The Provisional Government surrendered to the Red Guards. The attack took longer than it might have done because there were 1000 rooms in the Palace that they had to search. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-07-19 15:09:28 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.moviem.co.uk/filmmore.php?index=864 A wholly inaccurate account of the Russian revolution! I will explain why... 1. There were not 1000\'s of Bolshevik red guards attacking the Winter palace ( as portrayed by Eisenstein) 2.It was not as well organised as it was portrayed in the film. In truth the attack was to begin in the morning. ?It only begun 10 hrs later because of technical difficulties. 3. There was no artillery in the hands of the Bolsheviks ( exception, one shot fired by a battleship) 4.The days following the attack the winter palace looked like the Oktober Fest! After the Bolsheviks had found the Tsars liquor cellar filled with bottles of vodka they decided to celebrate! This obviously a propaganda film with hardly any historical accuracy. The should call it Eisensteins \"October, A Fictional Account of the Russian Revolution\" |
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