jun 30, 1917 - The July Putsch

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The Petrograd Machine Gun Regiment, one of the largest and most politically volatile regiments in the city, was ordered to report for duty on the front. On July 3, 1917, Bolshevik leaders attempted to use the regiment, in combination with their on armed forces and 20000 sailors from a nearby naval bade to take over the Petrograd Soviet. On July 4, an armed mob began to assemble outside the Tauride Palace, where the Soviet had its HQ. After that, the Bolsheviks were treated as traitors, with news being forged to paint them as "German traitors and accomplices."

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