Potemkin mutiny

• Complaints about food


  • Borsch (thin soup made from rotting beetroot)
  • Scraps of meat crawling with maggots
• The Potemkin crew sailed to the port of Odessa where a serious anti-government strike was taking place
• The strikers welcomed the Potemkin crew as heroes and formally honoured the body of Vakulenchuk
• The authorities were enraged that strikers and mutineers were making common cause

  Troops were ordered to disperse the crowds at the harbour, resulting in 2000 civilian deaths
• Witte feared that the returning troops from the Russo-Japanese War would join the revolution, saying 'then everything would collapse'