#OtD 27 Mar 1918 Bolshevik secret police agents tried to arrest a clown during his show for satirising the new regime.

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#OtD 27 Mar 1918 Bolshevik secret police agents tried to arrest a clown during his show for satirising the new regime. The audience thought it was part of the act but the clown fled and the agents shot their revolvers into the air, panicking the crowd https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9929/cheka-disrupts-clown-show