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was arriving to liberate Schönfeld, but Pravda's detachment defeated it in battle. On 26 January, the colony held a church wedding for a young couple, one of whom was a
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of Schönfeld. Pravda and his detachment robbed the residents at gunpoint, loading up all of their carts with money and valuables, before taking them back to
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during which three guests were arrested by the insurgents. The arrested were transferred to a neighboring village, where one of them was executed and another barely survived. The third was beaten with a sword and subjected to a
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was carried out by the insurgents, who killed dozens of local colonists. By the spring of 1920, Pravda's renewed terror against the remaining colonists of Schönfeld forced the rest of them to flee to
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396:, pp. 18–19;
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226:morphine addiction
222:Russian landowners
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