Lex Anteinternet: Thursday September 15, 1921. Roman Fyodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg executed.

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Thursday September 15, 1921. Roman Fyodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg executed.

Baron Roman Fyodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg was executed by the Red Army on this day in 1921.

Von Ungern-Sternberg was a frightening Baltic German of noble background who entered the Imperial Russian Army prior to World War One. Violent and erractic since his boyhood, he fought for a restoration of the Imperial crown in the Russian Civil War before crossing into Mongolia, where his forces fought for Mongolian independence. He was captured by the Red Army after it intervened in Mongolia, and executed on this day in 1921.

The National Women's Party was meeting this day a century ago.

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