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Russia, UK: Sidney Reilly – “Executed Today” – in 1925

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe, Russia, United Kingdom, History, International Relations, Politics

ExecutedToday.com – “a blog of history, sociology, biography, criminology, law, and kismet — an unrepresentative but arresting view of the human condition across time and circumstance from the parlous vantage of the scaffold” – writes [1]: “On this date in 1925, legendary British spy — and subsequent James Bond inspiration — Sidney Reilly was shot in a forest outside Moscow for his efforts to overthrow the Soviet government.”