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On this day, 15 January 1919, revolutionary socialists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered in Berlin by the right-wing paramilitary Freikorps who were acting on the orders of the “socialist” Social Democrats. Luxemburg and Liebknecht had played an important part in the German Revolution of 1918. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1324848234366990/?type=3