The war in Italy and Egypt did not make any waves in Europe, and life still needs to be done to continue working. And Kirov, the ******* of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the first secretary of the Leningrad Oblast Party Committee, still needs to devote himself to busy work.

As the head of the Leningrad region, Kirov had a heavy job. As the largest port city in the Soviet Union, Leningrad Oblast has a high position in trade, military, politics and economy.

The Second Five-Year Plan is currently in full swing, and there is a lot of work that needs to be done in the Leningrad Region, which needs to be arranged by Kirov, as the first secretary, and in fact he is also very busy with his work.

Kirov was born on March 27, 1886 in Urzum (present-day Kirov Oblast) in Vyatka Province to a family of working people.

In 1904 he joined the Bolshevik group of the Tomsk Social Democratic Labor Party organization, considered an old party member, and took part in the October armed uprising in St. Petersburg.

After the victory of the October Revolution, he was sent back to the Caucasus to lead the struggle for the establishment and consolidation of Soviet power in the Terek region and other regions of the North Caucasus.

In March 1921, he was elected ****** at the 10th Congress of the Communist Party of Russia.

In 1923, he was elected a member of the Central Committee at the 12th Congress of the Communist Party of Russia. In the early 1920s, in the great debate of the CPSU Party, he was firmly in favor of Stalin and against Trotsky and Zinoviev.

In 1926, he went to Leningrad to succeed Zinoviev as a senior regional official. In Leningrad, he led the construction of local industry, forcefully pursued the collectivization of agriculture, demolished dozens of churches, and arrested intellectuals who were perceived as opposing the construction of socialism. At the same time, he was so eloquent that he was the only member of the Politburo who dared to go to the factory and speak directly to the workers.

Since 1930, he has been the ******* of the Communist Party of the United States.

Although Kirov was only eighth in the Politburo, he was a staunch follower of Stalin.

In the early 1920s, in the great debate of the CPSU Party, he strongly supported Stalin and opposed Trotsky and Zinoviev (the first chairman of the Executive Committee of the Comintern from 1883 to 1936). In 1926, he went to Leningrad to succeed Zinoviev as a senior regional official.

At the same time, he had a very close personal relationship with Stalin. Stalin's guards said in their memoirs that after a long chat, Stalin was even willing to give up his bed to Kirov to sleep on, and he himself ran to the side to sleep on the sofa.

So Kirov was Stalin's most valued subordinate and regarded him as his successor.

On an ordinary day on December 1, at half past four in the afternoon, Kirov walked to his office after a meeting.

Little did he know that an uninvited guest had come to the state government, and an unemployed party member was hiding in a corner and staring at him.

Nikolaev was born in 1904 in Petersburg into a family of workers. When he was very young, he lost his father, and his health has not been good, and when he grows up, his temperament becomes irritable and abnormal.

At the age of 18, he became a member of the Communist Party; At the age of 21, he had a warm family: in 1925 he married a Latvian girl, Mirida de la Urier, who was three years older than him, and soon gave birth to two beautiful sons. Although he had studied at a communist university, he was never able to work in any unit for a long time, after changing jobs countless times.

In October 1933, he was transferred to the Leningrad Institute of Party History as a mobile propagandist of Party history.

Shortly thereafter, the Institute of Party History called up party members to join the transport system, but Nikolaev refused to go on a long business trip to the railway, citing his ill health and recuperation, and he had two young children.

As a result, he was double-opened. Not only expelled from the party, but also from public office.

Although Nikolaev was reinstated from the party shortly after his expulsion and received an offer to work in the factory, he was not willing to do manual work with his briefcase, and he began to frequently write letters to party and government organs and leaders, including Stalin himself, complaining that he had been treated inhumanely. In a letter to the People's Commissariat of Health, he also made his request clear: "Please give me an answer by July 1 - let me go to recuperation or not." It's time for me to get a recuperation permit. ”

In addition, he asked for a permit to recuperate in the Leningrad region, which he did not want, he needed to go to the best place for recuperation.

Of course, there was no response to these letters of complaint. And, as an unemployed man, he was even deprived of his food supply certificate - his family was supported by his wife Mirida alone. At that time, Milida, who had been a member of the party for 15 years, had already served as an inspector at the Leningrad Region Bureau of Heavy Industry.

In addition to writing letters of accusation to party and government organs at all levels, Nikolaev began to write autobiographical diaries. In his diary, he wrote that he was 30 years old and that he was going to leave this autobiography to his sons, Márquez and Leonid, as a memento. As an unemployed person, he has a lot of time to do this.

In this diary, it is clear how he intended to take revenge on those in power and how he prepared for this murder.

In August 1934, a long period of unwilliness had brought Nikolaev to the brink of madness, and he decided not only to take revenge, but also to die a bang. "My shooting, it will be similar to Zhiryapov's!" In the diary, Nikolaev wrote such an oath. Andrei Zhiryapov was a famous assassin in Russian history, and he was one of the masterminds behind the assassination of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

And he is now very close to his goal, and Kirov, who is the target, does not know anything about it.

It's close.

It's closer.

Just as Kirov was about to pass by his hidden corner, Nikolaev jumped out with a sudden swoop. Kirov, who had not yet reacted, was shot twice in the head, and Kirov, who had been shot in the back of the head and knew nothing, fell in a pool of blood.

Nikolaev, who fulfilled his own wish, trembled and raised his pistol to end his life. The thought of having a Politburo member die with him made his trembling hands tremble even more.

However, his wish to end his life seems to be unfulfilled. The staff and guards who rushed out grabbed the Assassin's hand, and they worked together to subdue him.

However, the result in front of them made everyone feel a chill coming out of their hearts, and a monstrous wave was coming. It's just that no one thought about the scale of this great wave, which is the great wave that makes everyone feel discolored.

As soon as the news of Kirov's murder reached Moscow, Stalin, who was furious, ordered the preparation of a special train to Leningrad to inquire about the case.

On the morning of 2 December, Stalin rushed to Leningrad with Molotov, Voroshilov, and other senior leaders by special train.

On the day of his arrival in Leningrad, Stalin personally interrogated Nikolaev. Later, senior leaders of the security services, Yagoda, Yezhov, and Agranov, also interrogated Nikolaev. However, during all the interrogations, Nikolaev insisted that he had carried out the murder with a private weapon alone.

In addition to the arraignment of Nikolaev, Stalin decided on December 2 to bring another key figure in the case to trial: Kirov's guard captain Borisov, who was arrested immediately after the incident, and it was he who accompanied Kirov to the third floor. However, on the way to see Stalin, Borisov died in a car accident (none of the others in the car were injured)!

It is believed that this "accident" must have deepened Stalin's anger and made Stalin feel that death was so close to him. Thus, Stalin highlighted the other side of his actions, and an order was issued that he had prepared with his own hands. In the future, similar cases must be concluded within 10 days, and the capital punishment sentence will be carried out immediately.

Kirov's body was quickly transported to Moscow, where on December 6 Stalin personally presided over a grand funeral and carried his coffin.

Mikoyan once wrote in his memoirs: "Kirov's death was the most painful event for the party and the country after Lenin's death, and the grief even exceeded that of Dzerzhinsky's death." ”

But no one except Stalin thought that this was just a beginning, a beginning that would change everyone's color.