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Revolution 360: Prison unrest

During the February Revolution, criminals who had broken free attacked the prisons. They used the turmoil caused by the revolution to release their ‘brothers in crime’ and destroy archives, erasing their criminal records so the new authorities would have no database to rely on.

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