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On this day June 28, 1936

Anarchist Alexander Berkman dies

Alexander Berkman
AKA: Sasha
Released
Alexander Berkman was a Russian-born anarchist writer, editor, and lifelong companion of Emma Goldman whose own imprisonments span more than two decades and two separate political campaigns. In 1892,...
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Famous Lithuanian-born Jewish anarchist Alexander Berkman shot himself, unable to endure the pain of a longstanding illness. Initially paralysed by the bullet in his spine, he sank into a coma and died at 10pm.

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