Kirov's Murder
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- Created on: 03-03-15 13:15
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- Kirov's Murder
- Circumstance of the murder
- 1st December 1934
- Just after 4pm
- In the party headquarters, Leningrad
- Passed murderer in corridor...
- ...emerged from shadow...
- ...shot him in the neck
- ...emerged from shadow...
- Murderer
- Leonid Nikolayev
- Aged 30
- Member of communist party from 1920-1934
- Coincidences?
- Kirov went to office alone, left bodyguard downstairs
- Guards absent from corridors
- Murderer
- hated party bureaucracy, didn't recognise him
- Diary in briefcase sowed murder was planned
- expelled from party March 1934, later reinstated
- Prior to murder arrested twice in Kirov's neighbourhood
- Evidence Stalin Linked
- Kirov received support at 17th party congress
- More people voted for him than Stalin
- He opposed Stalin over the Ryutin affair (1932) and pace of industrialization
- By summer 1934 Kirov and Stalin fell out over number of issues
- Stalin refused to remove personnel
- Stalin interrogated Nikolayev
- First arrests by Stalin's instruction
- Evidence NKVD linked
- Zaporozhets brought personnel in key positions without Medved's permission
- Medved and Kirov wanted them removed, Kirov asked Stalin
- Zaporozhets previously worked with Yagoda
- Zaporozhets released him after being arrested
- Nikolayev pointed to them
- Key witness, Borisov, bodyguard killed on the way to be questioned
- In truck with NKVD men
- Kirov wanted to reduce their power
- Less terror
- Circumstance of the murder
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