dimanche rouge
Also known as Bloody Sunday, St Petersburg
massacre en Russie de janvier 1905
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On January 22, 1905, Russian soldiers opened fire on a peaceful crowd of workers and their families marching to the Tsar's palace in St. Petersburg to present a petition, killing hundreds of people in what became known as Bloody Sunday. The massacre shocked the Russian public, undermined faith in the Tsar's benevolence, and sparked strikes and unrest that helped trigger the 1905 Russian Revolution.
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- Кровавое воскресенье
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- Bloody Sunday (1905)
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- 1905-01-09
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Le Dimanche rouge (en russe : Кровавое воскресенье, littéralement « dimanche sanglant ») du 9 janvier 1905 (22 janvier 1905 dans le calendrier grégorien) à Saint-Pétersbourg, capitale de l'Empire russe, désigne la répression sanglante d'une manifestation populaire sur la place du palais d'Hiver par l'armée impériale, qui tira sur la foule. Cet événement dramatique marque le début de la révolution russe de 1905.
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