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The Spartacist Uprising: Germany's Communist Revolution of 1919
It's January 1919. Germany is reeling from defeat in World War I, the Kaiser has fled, and a fragile republic is struggling to be born. In Berlin, radical socialists led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht seize the moment, launching an armed uprising that will determine the future of German democracy — and cost them their lives. This episode dives into the Spartacist Uprising, a bloody week that pitted the newly formed Freikorps against revolutionary workers and set a pattern of political violence that would haunt the Weimar Republic for its entire existence. We explore the clash…
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