Kuusinen Club Incident
300px, The Kuusinen Club was located in Kamenno-ostrovski prospekt 26–28, in Saint Petersburg The Kuusinen Club Incident ( fi, Kuusisen klubin murhat) was the murder of eight members of the Finnish Communist Party in the Kuusinen Club (their Saint Petersburg office), on 31 August 1920. Background After the ending of the Finnish Civil War in 1918, thousands of Red Guards fled to Russia, mostly to Saint Petersburg. The leaders of the Guard lived lavishly, spending their time in the best hotels and restaurants of Saint Petersburg. They had millions of Finnish marks' worth of foreign exchange that they had stolen from the Bank of Finland. Many other Finnish Communists who had fled to Soviet Russia were living in very poor conditions, and those who openly criticized party leaders were discharged from the party. The party began to schism into so-called "revolver oppositions", whose target was to remove the gap between the leaders and the supporters by open violence. Deaths * Tuom ...
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