One Hundred and Twenty Eight Assassination

Speaking of Kirov, I believe many people are familiar with him. His full name is Sergei Milonovich Kirov. (First appearance) But I still want to briefly introduce the elites under this red regime.

As early as October 1917, he was elected to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets and participated in the October armed uprising in Petersburg. after the October Revolution. The Party Central Committee sent him back to the Caucasus to lead the struggle for the establishment and consolidation of Soviet power in Terek Oblast and other regions of the North Caucasus.

In February 1919, he was appointed to lead the defense of Astrakhan City and Astrakhan Krai, and successively served as the "Chairman" of the Provisional Revolutionary Military Committee of the Border Region, a member of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Independent Eleventh Army of the Red Army, and a member of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the 11th Independent Army of the Red Army. Member of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Group Army. During this period, he also actively led the underground work of the North Caucasus Party of Regions and the guerrilla war against Denikin.

In May 1920, he was the plenipotentiary representative of the Soviet "Government" of the Russian Federation to the Menshevik "Government" of Georgia. In the same year, he was ordered to lead the Soviet-Russian delegation to sign a peace treaty with Poland in Riga. After returning to the North Caucasus in mid-October, he was elected as a member of the North Caucasus Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Federation.

In March 1921, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee at the Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party. In July of the same year, he was elected secretary of the Central Committee of Azerbaijan. Kirov was one of the founders of the Caucasus Federal Socialist Republic. With the joint efforts of him and Ordzhonikidze, in 1922, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Georgia jointly established the South Caucasus Federal Socialist Republic and passed a resolution to join the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

In 1923 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party. In December 1925, he was transferred to Leningrad to work. In February 1926, he was elected as the first secretary of the Leningrad Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China at the 23rd special meeting of the party held in Leningrad Province and concurrently served as the first secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. First Secretary, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Since 1930, he has been a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

However, such a smooth sailing is not entirely a good thing. At the 17th Congress of the Soviet Union, Kirov won the support of a large number of people, which made Stalin, who has always regarded Kirov as his successor, felt the crisis.

Power can be overwhelming. In fact, Kirov felt at this moment that he did not need to be subservient to others. During the Soviet Union Congress, he publicly stood up and prepared to compete with Stalin, who was also his teacher and friend.

On December 1, 1934, at about 16:30 in the afternoon, Kirov entered the Smolny Palace, the office building of the State Party Committee, and walked up the main stairs to the third floor. Just as Kirov turned from the main corridor to the left corridor and was about to walk towards his office, he was shot in the back of the head and fell to the ground. The staff and guards who rushed out after hearing the sound grabbed the neurotic Nikolayev who was holding a revolver next to Kirov's body. Fifteen minutes later, when doctors carried Kirov into his office for ineffective rescue, Nikolayev's wife Mirida was also brought under control.

After being arrested, Nikolayev immediately accepted a surprise trial, but his emotions were out of control at that time, and it was not until he was arraigned for the second time at 21 o'clock that night that he made a more logical "sex" statement intermittently.

This incident is full of bewildering and bizarre. First of all, this Nikolayev, who was judged to be a little neurotic, actually owned the revolver he used for the murder as early as 1918. In 1924, he was also removed from the Soviet Union. The "government" obtained the corresponding firearm license, and successfully re-registered it six years later, in April 1930.

And this gun-wielding dangerous person was arrested twice for following Kirov, an important Soviet leader. And the revolver was found on his body. What makes people even more incredible is that he was acquitted twice...

Another bizarre thing is that a key person like the escort guard Borisov actually used an ordinary truck, and the truck had a car accident on the way. The "presidency" recounted what happened at the time: when the truck was moving, the Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel sitting next to the driver grabbed the steering wheel, drove the car across the pavement, and hit the wall. The car came to a stop after hitting a wall, and no one was injured, except that the car's right headlight was damaged. Strangely, Borisov died on the spot, and the doctor's certificate stated that he died in a car accident. Later, Borisov's wife was also killed. The driver was also imprisoned in a concentration camp.

And this guard Borisov is the person responsible for Kirov's security work. Coincidentally, when Kirov was killed, he, the guard who should have been inseparable, was just 20 steps away from the person he wanted to protect. During the assassination of Kirov, the guard did nothing to remedy the situation.

The parties were all killed within two days, and then Stalin convened an internal meeting of his personal faction. There were not many people attending the meeting, including Stalin's cron Khrushchev, and a Stalin named Yezhov. direct line.

"Yezhov! Comrade Kirov was assassinated! This is a loss for our entire Soviet Union!" Stalin said to his men in a heartache as soon as they met: "The murderer must be found immediately! There are also behind the scenes! To Zinovi Find the murderer among the husbandmen!"

But Yezhov still clearly heard Khrushchev whisper in Stalin's ear: "Everything is done, there is no need to live."

Then Stalin picked up his pen and wrote "Moscow Headquarters" and "Leningrad Headquarters" on two blank sheets of paper, and then listed Zinoviev, Kamenev and others under the "Moscow Headquarters" The arrested Communist Youth League cadres are listed under the "Leningrad Headquarters".

Then he handed the two pieces of paper to Yezhov: "Catch the murderer according to the name on it! They are all murderers who conspire to destroy the country!" So this list from Stalin's pen became the murder case of Kirov evidence of.

Kirov's body was quickly transported to Moscow, and on December 6, 1934, Stalin personally presided over a grand funeral and carried his coffin under the attention of all the people. Mikoyan once wrote in his memoirs: "The death of Kirov is the most painful thing for the party and the country after the death of Lenin, and the grief even exceeds the grief of Dzerzhinsky's death. "

On December 22, 1934, the Soviet "government" issued a notice to investigate the Kirov case, saying that the assassin Nikolayev was a member of an underground terrorist organization called "Leningrad Headquarters", which was led by Zinovi. The members of the Yev opposition, Zinoviev and Kamenev were handed over to the NKVD for further investigation due to insufficient evidence.

On December 29, 1934, without obtaining any valid evidence or documents, Nikolayev and his 13 so-called "Leningrad Headquarters" associates were executed. Before that, 103 former Belarusian close Guard members were suppressed.

More than two months later, Nikolayev's wife Mirida, who had been expelled from the party for losing her vigilance, was also shot on March 10, 1935. In addition to Mirida herself, her sister and brother-in-law were also suppressed. In addition, Nikolayev's brother, Peter Nikolayev, and Mirida's brother, Peter Draulie, were also arrested one after another. Nikolayev's two sisters and cousins ​​were also sent to concentration camps, while his mother was sent to live in remote rural areas.

On December 16, 1934, Stalin ordered the arrest of Zinoviev and Kamenev. Both men were veteran Bolsheviks who joined the party in 1901, and were members of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee from 1919 to 1926. Zinoviev served as the "Chairman" of the Leningrad Soviet and the "Chairman" of the Executive Committee of the "Communist" International. Kamenev served as the "Chairman" of the Moscow Soviet, the First Deputy "Chairman" of the People's Commissariat of the USSR and the "Chairman" of the Labour and Defense Committee. These two men and Stalin formed a troika in Lenin's later years, and together they helped Stalin through the crisis of Lenin's will and got rid of Stalin's biggest rival, Trotsky.

It was these two people, who were supposed to be Stalin's right-hand men, but because they kept provoking Stalin's authority in the party, and vaguely became the spiritual leaders who opposed Stalin's factions, they finally broke with Stalin. So this time Stalin decided to start with these two people.

On January 15, 1935, the Soviet Union conducted a secret trial on 19 opposition members including Zinoviev and Kamenev, accusing them of establishing and joining the secret organization "Moscow Headquarters" to engage in secret anti-Soviet activities in an attempt to replace the current leader.

Both were determined to admit the existence of such an organization, denied any involvement in Kirov's assassination, and condemned terrorist acts in court, but under pressure, forced to admit that their past anti-Stalin behavior may have objectively contributed to the current existence Terrorist tendencies that drive the perpetrators down. As such, they were indirectly morally responsible for the Assassin Nikolaev.

After the prosecutors could not get any materials to prove their crimes, they sentenced Zinoviev to 10 years in prison and Kamenev to 5 years. In the end, the two men could not escape, and they were secretly executed by Yezhov in prison.

Not everyone is silent on the matter, and not everyone is as idiot-like as to believe in the findings of Kirov's case. Many of the older generation of Soviet revolutionary leaders were skeptical. This included Marshal Tukhachevsky, who was already the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Front.

This military boss who has just been promoted to marshal is running up and down on this matter, and he wants to find the murderer who murdered his comrade. Unfortunately, no one is willing to help him, and what he does has angered the original one bit by bit. Stalin, who wanted to have a firm grip on the military.

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