Terror

in the campaign “Liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich (1709)”

Public executions of prisoners as intimidation: "Cossacks and officers were hanged, their heads were cut off, and the graves of old Zaporozhians were desecrated"[1]. The head of the acting otaman was demonstratively sent to Zaporizhzhia[1].

ID: C0014.T0022
Technique:  Terror
Start: January 1709
End: May 1709
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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