In the spring of 1921 the failed Kronstadt Rebellion sent thousands of Kronstadt Sailors to their death as martyrs to Russia's third civil war. While many of the Kronstadt Sailors were executed outside of Petrograd as traitors to the new communist regime there were some who fled Russia to Finland or wandered along the Russian countryside trying to blend back into society. About that time the American Relief Administration under Herbert Hoover was organizing to feed millions of Russians due to the terrible drought and famine that was ravaging the country along with disease and pestilence. It...
In the spring of 1921 the failed Kronstadt Rebellion sent thousands of Kronstadt Sailors to their death as martyrs to Russia's third civil war. While ...