On this day, 106 years ago, January 5, 1919 (December 4, 1918 in the lunar calendar), workers in Berlin, Germany went on general strike and armed uprising. Spartak Regiment and government troops engaged in a fierce gun battle. On January 4, 1919, Albert's government suddenly announced the removal of Ahe Gorlenberg, a leftist Independent Social Democrat who sympathized with the revolution, from his post as police chief. This provocative act aroused great indignation among the workers. On January 5, Berlin workers launched a general strike, with 200,000 people participating and held an armed uprising. On the 11th, government military and political minister Norsk led a counter-revolutionary armed force-a volunteer group-into Berlin. The workers fought bloody battles and bravely resisted, but due to the disparity in power, the uprising failed. On January 15, Liebknecht and Luxembourg, the revolutionary leaders of the German proletariat, were brutally killed. Government troops set up machine guns in the palace courtyard to suppress the insurgents. Liebknecht, leader of the Spartacus regiment, delivered a speech at the funeral of the fallen insurgent soldier. A few days later, he and another leader of the German Communist Party, Rosa Luxemburg, were arrested and killed by the Abbott government.