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The Italian-Egyptian war has not caused any storms in Europe, and life still needs to be done to continue working. As the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Leningrad Oblast, Kirov still needs to devote himself to his busy work.

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

At present, the second five-year plan is in full swing. There is a lot of work that needs to be done in Leningrad Oblast, which needs to be arranged by Kirov as the first secretary. In fact, he is also very busy with work.

Kirov was born on March 27, 1886 in a working people's family in Urzum, Vyatka Province (now Kirov Region).

In 1904, he joined the Bolshevik group in the Tomsk Social Democratic Labour Party organization. He was an old party member and participated 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 to establish and consolidate the Soviet regime in Terek Oblast and other regions of the North Caucasus.

In March 1921, he was elected at the Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Brazzaville).

In 1923, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Brazzaville). In the early 1920s, in the great debate of the whole party of the CPSU, he firmly supported Stalin and opposed Trotsky and Zinoviev.

In 1926, he went to Leningrad to succeed Zinoviev as a senior state official. In Leningrad, he led local industrial construction, pushed hard on collectivization of agriculture, demolished dozens of churches, and arrested intellectuals who were seen as opposed to socialist construction. At the same time, he was outstanding in eloquence. Among the Politburo members at that time, he was the only one who dared to speak directly to the workers in the factory.

In 1930, he served as the Allied Communist Party (Cloth).

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 whole party of the CPSU, he firmly 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 state official.

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

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

On an ordinary day on December 1, at 4:30 in the afternoon, Kirov walked to his office after finishing a meeting.

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

In 1904, Nikolayev was born into a working family in Petersburg. When he was very young, he lost his father, and his health was not very good. When he grew up, his temperament became abnormal.

At the age of 18, he became a member of the United Communist Party (Brazzaville); at the age of 21, he had a warm family: in 1925, he married a Latvian girl 3 years older than him, Mirida Dela Ule,

And soon gave birth to two beautiful sons. Although he studied at a communist university, he was always unable to work in any unit for a long time, after changing jobs numerous times.

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

Shortly after that, the Party History Institute recruited party members to join the transportation system, but Nikolayev refused to go on a long business trip on the railway, on the grounds that he was not in good health and should be recuperated, and he had two young children. .

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

Although Nikolayev's party membership was reinstated shortly after being expelled and he received a suggestion to work in the factory, however, he was not willing to do physical work, who once carried a briefcase, and he began to frequently report to parties at all levels. Government agencies and leaders - even Stalin himself - wrote letters accusing them of inhuman treatment. In a letter to the People's Committee of Health, he also made his request clear: "Please give me an answer before July 1 - let me go to convalescence or not. I should get a convalescence permit."

In addition, he also asked for a convalescent permit to the Leningrad region, which he did not want yet. He needed to go to the best place to recuperate.

Of course, these letters of complaint went unanswered. And, as an unemployed, he was even deprived of a food supply certificate - his wife, Mirida, was the only one to support his family. At that time, Mirida, who had been in the party for 15 years, had already served as an inspector of the Leningrad Region Heavy Industry Bureau.

In addition to writing letters of accusation to party and government organs at all levels, Nikolayev began to write an autobiographical diary. In his diary, he wrote that he was 30 years old and planned to leave this autobiography to his sons, Marquez and Leonid. As an unemployed man, he has a lot of time to do this.

In this diary, it is clear how he sought revenge against those in power and prepared for the murder.

In August 1934, after a long period of frustration, Nikolayev was driven to the brink of madness, and he not only decided to take revenge, but also prepared to die violently. "My shooting will be similar to Zhiryapov's shooting!" In his diary, Nikolayev wrote such an oath. Andrei Zhiryapov is a famous assassin in Russian history, he was one of the masterminds of the assassination of Russian Emperor Alexander II.

And he is very close to his target now, and Kirov, who is the target, is not aware of it at all.

near.

closer.

Just as Kirov was about to pass his hidden corner, Nikolayev jumped out suddenly. Two shots were aimed at Kirov's head, who had not yet reacted, and Kirov, who was shot in the back of the head and knew nothing, fell in a pool of blood.

Nikolayev, who had fulfilled his own wish, raised his pistol tremblingly to end his life. The thought of having a Politburo member die with him made his trembling hands even worse.

However, his wish to end his life seemed impossible. The staff and guards who rushed out after hearing the sound grabbed the assassin's hand, and they worked together to subdue him.

However, the results in front of them made everyone feel that a chill came out from the bottom of their hearts, and the monstrous waves were about to hit. It's just that no one thought of the scale of this huge wave. This is a huge wave that makes everyone disgusted.

After the news of Kirov's murder reached Moscow, Stalin, who was furious, immediately ordered the preparation of a special train, and he wanted to go to Leningrad to investigate the case in person.

On the morning of December 2, Stalin took Molotov, Voroshilov and other senior leaders to Leningrad on a special train. As soon as he got off the train, he scolded him at Leningrad Railway Station. State security personnel who came to pick up the station.

On the day of his arrival in Leningrad, Stalin personally interrogated Nikolayev. After that, the senior leaders of the security services Yagoda, Yezhov, and Agranov also arraigned Nikolayev successively. In all of his interrogations, however, Nikolayev insisted that he carried out the murder alone with personal weapons.

In addition to arraigning Nikolayev, Stalin decided on December 2 to arraign another key figure in the case: Borisov, the captain of Kirov's guard who was arrested immediately after the crime, and who accompanied Kiro Husband went to the third floor. However, on the way to see Stalin, Borisov was killed in a car accident (no one else in the car was injured)!

I believe that this "accident" must have deepened Stalin's anger, but also 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. Similar cases in the future must be concluded within 10 days, and the capital punishment sentence will be executed immediately.

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

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. "

But apart from Stalin, no one thought that this was just a beginning, a beginning that would stop everyone.