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>Oliver M. Saylor, an American official, who was in Saratov at the time, says the "decree" was invented by some irresponsible individual and signed "The Free Association of Anarchists of Saratov"-a forgery-to discredit the Anarchists. The Anarchists were never in power; the Bolsheviki hated them, and had jailed several hundred of them. Mr. Saylor presented these facts in The New Republic, March 15, 1919--
>The Central Soviet Government published on May 18, 1918, a decision imposing a fine of 25,000 rubles on the Moscow comic paper Evening Life for printing a fictitious nationalization decree on May 3, and suppressed the paper.
Marxists.org also does not bother to include the decree for its list from 1917-1918 (the law was passed at least prior to 3 May 1918)
>https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/events/revolution/documents/index.htm
The hoax takes form in 1919: https://www.jstor.org/stable/45328787?seq=3
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But it refuted repeatedly in the subsequent years.
Yes, there are spurious details in many histories that come from hoaxes. You found where the redditors got the hoax from. Next thing I know you're going to be telling me about headless men in Libya.