A millionaire from the suburb of Berlin with whom the bloodiest German government-sponsored revolution in world history began.

The revolution devours its own children - Sokolnikov, in stabilising the Bolshevik economy, restoring confidence in the rouble, providing the opportunity for planned investment and thus becoming the builder of a new system of terror, underestimated the greed and needs of the new revolutionary government.

"To get rid of our enemies, we must create our own socialist terror. In order to do this, we will have to drag 90 million of the 100 million Russians with us and have them on our side. We have nothing to say to the remaining 10 million; we will have to get rid of them."

A member of the so-called old Bolsheviks, Unszlicht was, among other things, deputy to the "Red Executioner" Dzerzhinsky, holding many lucrative posts in subsequent years, depending on the demands of the Soviet party.

Like many other revolutionaries, he naively believed that he would build a system that would bring equality and happiness to people. Over the years, however, he built a system of terror - the Soviet empire.

The first Stalinist, responsible for the Katyń Massacre, the great famine in Ukraine, the destruction of Moscow's outstanding monuments. The number of his victims may have exceeded 10 million.

Marxist radical who gave rise to communist organisations in Russia.

Kamenev allied with Zinoviev and Stalin against Trotsky, helping Stalin to gain unlimited power.

He was not only directly responsible for the success of the revolution, but he also laid the foundations of an authoritarian system that fought resistance among the population with terror and violence for decades.

High rank commissar of the Cheka. Directly responsible for the crimes of the Red Terror in Petrograd and its environs.

A Russian politician of Jewish origin, one of the leaders of the bloodiest political system in world history - Bolshevism.