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surrounded the house and stormed it, discovering that
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Huliaipole from Katerynoslav for a group meeting at Ivan Levadny's house. The police found out about the meeting through their informants and surrounded the house, leading to a shoot-out, during which Prokip Semenyuta was hit in the leg. Oleksandr attempted
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Kariachentsev to come to Belgium, Semenyuta himself was planning to return to Ukraine, in order to break his comrades out of prison. One night in the autumn of 1909, Kariachentsev attended a play at a local theatre, not knowing that Semenyuta had returned from Belgium and
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by going into hiding. He eventually returned to
Huliaipole clandestinely in order to visit his family, while sometimes also smuggling anarchist literature and small arms into the village. With these weapons, Semenyuta advised the group to begin carrying out
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