The Bolsheviks of Czarist Russia were also known for attacking the police, with the intent of sweeping away every vestige of civil order.
They were enormously successful. Only, then they had to create their OWN patrols and enforcers of “civil order”.
My brother has done a lot of reading on this era of Russian history. He tells me the “intellectuals” also sided with rapists and murders in the late Czarist period, just like they do today.