jan 22, 1905 - Blood Sunday
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Bloody Sunday was a massacre in St. Petersburg Russia. This is a beginning to the russian revolution. A party lead by the priest, Georgy Gapon, who planned to attack the Winter Palace with a mass demonstration that in hope that their request would go straight to Nicholas II himself. When the priest told his plan to authorities, he then peacefully led workers there carrying religious icons, petitions and pictures of Nicholas II.
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Russian Revolution
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