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"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

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items and gems as <strong>the</strong>y could possibly grab hold <strong>of</strong>. Eugene Levine was<br />

executed for all his crimes immediately after <strong>the</strong> fall <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Soviet Repub-<br />

lic <strong>of</strong> Bavaria. The mass murderer Max Levien managed to escape to<br />

Soviet Russia, where he became a member <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Central Executive<br />

Committee.<br />

The Bolshevik bandits could ravage only those areas <strong>of</strong> Russia, which<br />

<strong>the</strong> Germans had captured for <strong>the</strong>m, according to <strong>the</strong> historian Igor<br />

Bunich.<br />

The Germans were totally amazed - <strong>the</strong>y had never seen anything like<br />

<strong>the</strong> cruelty <strong>the</strong>y now witnessed. They could easily have put down <strong>the</strong><br />

Bolsheviks but held back since a deal was a deal.<br />

Lieutenant Balk, <strong>the</strong> chairman <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> German Commission in <strong>the</strong><br />

province <strong>of</strong> Yaroslavl, had demanded as early as <strong>the</strong> 21st <strong>of</strong> July 1918 that<br />

<strong>the</strong> voluntary army <strong>of</strong> peasants that was fighting <strong>the</strong> Bolsheviks should<br />

capitulate to him. The 428 naive peasants did just that, following which<br />

<strong>the</strong>y were handed over to <strong>the</strong> Bolsheviks who immediately executed all <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m, to <strong>the</strong> Germans' horror. (Igor Bunich, "The Party's Gold", St.<br />

Petersburg, 1992, p. 22.)<br />

The Bolsheviks were also given <strong>the</strong> Germans' lists <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> opponents <strong>of</strong><br />

Communism and on <strong>the</strong> basis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se lists <strong>the</strong>y executed a fur<strong>the</strong>r 50 247<br />

people between March and November 1918, according to Igor Bunich.<br />

270

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