Benefits to Stalin of Kirov's death
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- Created on: 06-05-14 13:21
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- Benefits to Stalin of Kirov's death
- Pretext for draconian legislation
- Opportunity to find scapegoats
- Pretext to purge the Party and the population
- Opportunity to silence the Bolsheviks who knew the contents of Lenin 's Testament
- Pretext to arrest and execute Zinoviev and Kamenev
- Freed Stalin of his most dangerous rival
- Opportunity to terrorise rivals and critics in the Party
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