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However, within a month, the Cheka had extended its repression to all political opponents of the communist government, including anarchists and others on the left.
On April 11 / 12, 1918, some 26 anarchist political centres in Moscow were attacked.
There 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 were arrested and jailed after a pitched battle took place between the two groups.
( P. Avrich.
G. Maximoff ) In response to the anarchists ' resistance, the Cheka orchestrated a massive retaliatory campaign of repression, executions, and arrests against all opponents of the Bolshevik government, in what came to be known as " Red Terror ".
The Red Terror, implemented by Dzerzhinsky on September 5, 1918, was vividly described by the Red Army journal Krasnaya Gazeta:
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