Speaking of Kirov, I believe many people are familiar with him, his full name is Sergei Milonovich Kirov. However, I would like to give a brief introduction to the elite of this red regime.

Already in October 1917, he was elected a deputy to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets and took part in the October armed uprising in Petersburg. After the victory of the October Revolution. The Central Committee of the Party sent him 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 February 1919, he was appointed to lead the defense of the city of Astrakhan and the Astrakhan Territory, and successively served as Chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Military Committee of the Territory, a member of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Eleventh Independent Army of the Red Army, and a member of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Southern Army. During this period, he also actively led the underground work of the party in the North Caucasus and the guerrilla war against Denikin.

In May 1920 he became 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 a Soviet and Russian delegation to sign a peace treaty with Poland in Riga. After returning to the North Caucasus in mid-October, he was elected a member of the North Caucasus Bureau of the Central Committee of Russia*.

In March 1921, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee at the 10th Congress of the Communist Party of Russia. In July of the same year, he was elected secretary of the Central Committee of Azerbaijan*. Kirov was one of the founders of the Federal Socialist Republic of the Caucasus. As a result of his joint efforts with Ordzhonikidze, in 1922 the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Georgia jointly established the Federal Socialist Republic of the South Caucasus, and a resolution was passed to join the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

In 1923 he was elected a member of the Central Committee at the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party. In December 1925, he was transferred to Leningrad, and in February 1926 at the 23rd Extraordinary Party Congress of the Leningrad Province was elected First Secretary of the Leningrad Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of the United States, and concurrently served as First Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States and an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States. Since 1930, he has been a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

However, this smooth sailing was not entirely good, and at the 17th Congress of the Soviet Union, Kirov won the support of a large part of the population, which made Stalin, who had always regarded Kirov as his successor, feel the crisis.

The power was so insatiable that Kirov felt that he didn't have to be subservient at this moment, and he openly stood up to stand up to Stalin, who was also his mentor and friend, during the Soviet* conference.

At about 16:30 p.m. on December 1, 1934, Kirov entered the Smolny Palace, the office building of the state party committee, and went up the main staircase to the third floor. Just as Kirov turned from the main hallway to the left hallway and was about to walk to his office, he was shot in the back of the head and fell to the ground. The staff and guards who rushed out at the sound of the sound grabbed Nikolaev, who was armed with a revolver and somewhat nervous, next to Kirov's body. Fifteen minutes later, when doctors carried Kirov into his office for ineffective resuscitation, Nikolaev's wife, Milida, was also charged.

After Nikolaev was arrested, he immediately underwent a surprise interrogation, but at that time his emotions were already out of control, and it was not until he was arraigned for the second time at 21 o'clock that night that he made a more logical explanation intermittently.

The incident is full of mysteries, starting with the fact that Nikolaev, who was judged to be a little nervous, had possessed the revolver he used in the murder as early as 1918, and in 1924 he had obtained the corresponding license from the Soviet government, and six years later, in April 1930, he successfully re-registered.

And this dangerous man with a gun was arrested twice for following Kirov, an important leader of the Soviet Union. And the revolver was found on his body. What is even more incredible is that he was acquitted twice......

Another strange thing is that such a key person as escort guard Borisov actually used an ordinary truck, and the truck was involved in an accident on the way, and the truck driver later told the Presidium of the Central Committee at the 20th Congress of the CPSU about what happened at that time: when the truck was moving, the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs sitting next to the driver grabbed the steering wheel, drove the car over the sidewalk, and hit the wall. The car came to a stop after hitting the wall, and no one was injured, except that the right headlight of the car was broken. Curiously, Borisov died on the spot, and the doctor's certificate says that he died in a car accident. Later, Borisov's wife was also killed. The drivers were also imprisoned in concentration camps.

And this guard Borisov is the person in charge of Kirov's security work, and it just so happens that when Kirov was killed, his guard, who should not have left an inch, happened to be twenty steps away from the person he wanted to protect, and during the assassination of Kirov, the guard did not take any remedial action.

The parties were killed in two days, and then Stalin convened an internal meeting of his personal faction, which was attended by not many people, including Stalin's confidant Nikita Khrushchev and a Stalin's descendant named Yezhov.

"Comrade Yezhov! Comrade Kirov has been assassinated! This is the loss of our entire Soviet Union!" As soon as Stalin saw him, he said bitterly to his men: "Find the murderer immediately! And the instigator behind the scenes! Go to Zinoviev to find the murderer!"

However, Yezhov still clearly heard Khrushchev whispering in Stalin's ear: "One qiē is done, there is no living mouth." ”

Then Stalin took up a 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", and the arrested Komsomol cadres under the "Leningrad Headquarters".

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

Kirov's body was soon transported to Moscow, where on December 6, 1934, 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." ”

On 22 December 1934, the Soviet government issued a circular investigating the Kirov case, stating that the Assassin Nikolaev was a member of an underground terrorist organization called the "Leningrad Headquarters", which consisted of members of the Zinoviev opposition, and that Zinoviev and Kamenev had been referred to the NKVD for further investigation due to insufficient incriminating evidence.

On December 29, 1934, Nikolaev and 13 of his associates from the so-called "Leningrad Headquarters" were executed without any valid evidence or writing, after 103 members of the former White Russian Guards had already been suppressed.

More than two months later, Mykolaiv's wife, Milida, 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, Nikolaev's brother Pyotr Nikolaev and Milida's brother Pyotr Draulle were also arrested. Nikolaev's two older sisters and cousins were also sent to concentration camps, while his mother was sent to live in remote villages.

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 Chairman of the Leningrad Soviet and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. Kamenev served as Chairman of the Moscow Soviet, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the Labor Defense Committee. These two men, together with Stalin, formed the troika in Lenin's later years, and together helped Stalin through the crisis of Lenin's will, and got rid of Stalin's greatest rival, Trotsky.

These are these two people, who were supposed to be Stalin's right-hand men, but because they constantly provoked Stalin's authority in the party, and had vaguely become the spiritual leaders of the opposition to Stalin's faction, they finally broke with Stalin. So this time Stalin decided to start with these two people first.

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

Both men categorically admitted to the existence of such an organization, denied any involvement in the Kirov assassination, and condemned the terrorist acts in court, but under pressure, they were forced to admit that their past anti-Stalin actions may have objectively contributed to the terrorist tendencies that exist in the present and contributed to the depravity of the perpetrators. Therefore, they were indirectly morally responsible for the Assassin Nikolaev.

Prosecutors sentenced Zinoviev to 10 years in prison and Kamenev to 5 years in prison after they could not find any evidence to prove their crimes. The two men were eventually killed, and they were secretly executed in prison by Yezhov.

Not everyone is silent about this, and not everyone believes the results of the investigation in the Kirov case like idiots. Many of the leaders of the Soviet revolution of the older generation were skeptical about this. And this includes Marshal Tukhachevsky, who was already the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Front.

This military tycoon, who had just been promoted to marshal, campaigned for this matter, bent on finding the murderer of his comrades, but unfortunately no one was willing to help him, and what he did angered Stalin, who was already trying to firmly control the military.