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ВАРФОЛОМЕЕВСКАЯ НОЧЬ
litNPsing onlyfixed WO the slaughter, annihilation of masses of (usually defenseless) people
bloodbath
wholesale massacre (slaughter).
The phrase derives from, and originally referred to, a real historical event, the massacre of French Huguenots by Roman Catholic mobs on the night of Aug. 24, 1572, the eve of St. Bartholomew's Day.