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@@ -2732,8 +2732,8 @@ Lenin believed in a peaceful development of the Revolution. He was wrong. A few
 the peaceful election of the people's deputies, the peaceful struggle of the parties within the Soviets, the testing of a programme of the different parties by practice, the peaceful transfer of power from one party to another.}\footnote{Lenin, \emph{Œuvres} (Works), t. 26, pp. 61-62}
 
 The capture of the Winter Palace will cause only six deaths and the salvos of the cruiser Aurore will be fired blank.
-On 26 October (8 November), the Second Congress of Soviets abolished the death penalty. Officer cadets compromised in the taking of the Petrograd telephone exchange that they wanted to take from revolutionaries were released against the promise to keep quiet.
-They did nothing about it and went to join the white insurgents in the south of the country. General Krasnov swore that he would no longer fight against the Bolsheviks.
+On 26 October (8 November), the Second Congress of Soviets abolished the death penalty. Officer cadets who tried to seize the Petrograd telephone exchange from revolutionaries were released against a promise to stay quiet.
+They didn't hold their end of the bargain and went to join the white insurgents in the south of the country. General Krasnov swore that he would no longer fight against the Bolsheviks.
 He later led a counter-revolutionary Cossack army. By the end of November, the new power was established almost everywhere and generally accepted. Around mid-February 1918, the Revolution could move to
 what Marcel Cachin called \enquote{the work of reconstitution}. But it was counting without the relentlessness of the dispossessed classes and without the support they were going to receive from abroad.
 
@@ -2765,18 +2765,19 @@ In the same month, Kolchak was definitively defeated. On October 24, Denikin was
 
 \section{1920}
 
-Between January and March, Soviet win everywhere. Kolchak was beaten in Siberia, fled, arrested in Irkustk and shot.
+Between January and March, Soviet troops win everywhere. Kolchak was beaten in Siberia, fled, arrested in Irkustk and shot.
 Denikin was forced to evacuate Odessa, where the French intervention ceased. The ports of Murmansk and Arkangelsk are liberated.
 
 The Soviet power, which has just set up the Goelro plan for the electrification of Russia, believes it can finally breathe.
 But on April 25, the Poles helped by the White armies of General Wrangel, supported in particular by the France, rushed into the Red Army. General Boudionny's 1st Cavalry Army went on the counter-offensive on 5 June and prevailed in November.
-Wrangel, cornered in crimea, is definitively defeated. Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan come to power from the revolutionaries. The struggle continued only in the Far East against the bands of Semionov and Baron Von Ungern, supported by the Japanese.
+Wrangel, cornered in Crimea, is definitively defeated. Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan come to power from the revolutionaries. The struggle continued only in the Far East against the bands of Semionov and Baron Von Ungern, supported by the Japanese.
 However, it was not until October 1922 that there were no more foreign interventionists in the territory of what became, on 30 December, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
 
 It is probably not bad to remember these few historical and undisputed facts when we want to talk about crimes in this part of the world and at that time.
 
 \rauthor{Pierre Durand}
 
+Pierre Durand, chairman of the Buchenwald-Dora alumni committee, is a journalist and historian specializing in the Second World War.
 He is the author of \emph{Les Sans-culottes du bout du monde, — 1917-1921 — Contre-révolution et intervention étrangère en Russie} (The sans culotte from the end of the world, 1917-1921, counter-revolution and foreign intervention in Russia), Éditions du Progrès, 1977 (NDLR) and at le Temps des Cerises, \emph{Jeunes pour la Liberté} (Youths for freedom); \emph{Louise Michel}; \emph{Joseph et les hommes de l'Ombre} (Joseph and the men from the Shadows).
 
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