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Tartu Credit Center Massacre

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Victims of Bolshevik Cheka in Tartu, Estonia, 1919
Victims of Bolshevik Cheka in Tartu, Estonia, 1919

The Tartu Credit Center Massacre (Estonian: Tartu Krediidikassa massimõrv) was the mass murder of 19 people in the basement of the former Credit Center in Tartu on 14 January 1919.The execution was carried out just before the Bolsheviks withdrew from Tartu by order of the Estonian Counter-Revolutionary Commission of the Commune of the Working People of Estonia. Its best-known victim was Platon, the first Estonian Orthodox bishop.

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Tartu Credit Center Massacre
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Victims of Bolshevik Cheka in Tartu, Estonia, 1919
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