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Title: One of the Bandits
Date: 1919
Language: en
Topics: Russian Revolution, obituary
Source: “Uralsky Nabat,” No. 2, 1919. Reprinted in “The Guillotine at Work” p.388–9. Retrieved on 2020-05-05 from https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/8kpsdr

One of the Bandits

During the wrecking of the Moscow Anarchist Federation [April 1918], the

Bolshevik authorities executed one of the Federation’s most active

workers, Comrade Khodounov.

He was known as an honest and sincere comrade not only among Anarchists

but wherever he had an opportunity to work.

He was one of the workers of the Telephone shops and as such he enjoyed

high confidence among his fellow employees. He organized an Anarchist

group at the factory. The workers elected him as their representative to

the Soviet of one of the Moscow boroughs.

During the October days comrade Khodounov organized a fighting unit

consisting of Anarchist workers living in various districts of Moscow.

He spent several sleepless night at the sessions of the Soviet which at

that time were held day and night. And he was one of the first to

announce to the Federation the joyful news of the final victory of the

workers.

Due to his energy the Telephone shops passed into the hands of the

workers. As one of the organizers of this enterprise, comrade Khodounov

threw himself into his work, spending days and nights at his task,

neglecting even the most necessary rest.

When the food crisis came, the workers of the Telephone shops designated

comrade Khodounov as the delegate of their purchasing committee which

went south to obtain bread. Khodounov came back to Moscow after a six

week absence. That was just on the eve of the break-up of the Federation

by the Bolshevik authorities.

Among the victims of this savage, unwarranted assault upon the

revolutionary organization of Moscow Anarchists was also comrade

Khodounov. He was arrested as “a bandit”, dragged to the Criminal

Department of the Police and booked as an underworld character. This was

done in spite of the fact that even the Bolsheviks paid homage to him as

a member of the Borough Soviet and as an active worker of the Central

Soviet.

On the way to the prison this “bandit” was shot. And then the Bolsheviks

keep on affirming that they are combating only the casual criminal

element among the Anarchist and not Anarchism as an honest, ideological

movement.