found it:
Eduardo Galeano, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History, tra. Mark Fried, New York: Nation Books, 2013, p. 19.
It's pretty good! Has one or two articles with brainworms but the rest is really good.
That's absurd. God was shot to death in a back alley in Vienna in 1892. The cops never really bothered investigating, just wrote it off as another coke deal gone wrong.
Googling with double quotes is your friend - "in 1918 in the midst" "upheaval in moscow". The trick used to be fantastic. But google changed things. The problem now is google sometimes helps by ignoring the double quotes which fucks the searches. And you can't disable that help.