The plots, replete with counterrevolutionaries, nobility unjustly victimized, highlighted collaborationist heroes seeking redemption. The Polish government initially responded by branding the rioters "provocateurs, counterrevolutionaries and imperialist agents". They were an element in the heightened political tension and suppression towards counterrevolutionaries and anti-communists. In October 1917, Trilisser worked to foil counterrevolutionaries and bandits in Siberia. Embarrassed, the Derg had him and five associates executed as counterrevolutionaries on 2 April. Her own children denounced her and Zhao Dan as "counterrevolutionaries". Between 1 and 2 million landlords were executed as counterrevolutionaries in Communist China. Probably this is our only operation for suppressing counterrevolutionaries. Castro came to support the exodus, viewing those who left as counterrevolutionaries. The purpose is not just to kill several counterrevolutionaries. In October 1994, five "counterrevolutionaries" were convicted of rebellion and sentenced to ten years each.