Milestones

[Loxuru]

On December 1, 1934, exactly 90 years ago, "the boy from Urzhum", aka "the party's favorite" Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov (party nickname Kirov) caught a revolver bullet in the corridor of the Smolny Palace, albeit fired by an unemployed communist, Lenya Nikolaev. The mentally unstable Nikolaev was ideal for the role of a killer. And they probably used him "in the dark". Someone told him that his wife was having an affair with Kirov. Someone let him into Smolny with a revolver, despite his long-expired pass. Moreover, he went not through the general entrance, but through a separate entrance used by Kirov and other high-ranking party officials.

The murder of Kirov was the pretext for Stalin to start the great purges of the 1930's, as far as I recall?

 

[vadim69]

The murder of Kirov was the pretext for Stalin to start the great purges of the 1930's, as far as I recall?

in Facebook they wrote that there is even an opinion:

that a forensic examination found traces of fresh sperm on Kirov's pants. And that perhaps Kirov was not shot in Smolny, but right on his mistress, who was the shooter's wife. They began interrogating her 15 minutes after Kirov's death.

 

[vadim69]

December 2

The UN has designated today as the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery