| − | In October 1917, Lenin masterminded a [[coup d'etat]] which overthrew the [[Provisional Government]] which had replaced the [[Russian Empire]]. In what historian [[Simon Sebag Montefiore]] has described as a comedy of errors, the Winter Palace was shelled and the Provisional Cabinet was placed under arrest by a mixture of Red Guards and radical sailors from the Kronstadt Naval Base. In the aftermath, the victorious beseigers engaged in a drunken celebration in the Palace's wine cellars and gang raped the units of female volunteers who had been gaurding the Cabinet. | + | In October 1917, Lenin masterminded a [[coup d'etat]] which overthrew the [[Provisional Government]] which had replaced the [[Russian Empire]]. In what historian [[Simon Sebag Montefiore]] has described as a comedy of errors, the Winter Palace was shelled and the Provisional Cabinet was placed under arrest by a mixture of Red Guards and radical sailors from the Kronstadt Naval Base. In the aftermath, the victorious beseigers engaged in a drunken celebration in the Palace's wine cellars and gang raped the units of female volunteers who had been gaurding the Cabinet (No citation which basically means it's a lie, which it is) |