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DENUNCIATION (donos). A weapon of war of reactionary forces of the bourgeoisie and Black Hundreds against the revolutionary movement-information [given] to the Tsarist or other reactionary government about revolutionary acts that were secretly being prepared.[Examples] Acting on a denunciation from a traitor, Tsarist gendarmes broke up an underground Bolshevik organization. Fascists threw a group of Komsomols into prison on the basis of a provocateur's denunciation.