Chapter 633： Kirov assassinated

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 busy work.

As the leader of Leningrad Region, Kirov has a heavy job. As the largest port city in the Soviet Union, Leningrad Oblast enjoys a lofty position in trade, military, political and economic terms.

Currently, the intensive Second Five-Year Plan, Leningrad Oblast needs to complete a lot of work, which needs to be arranged by Kirov as the first secretary. In fact, he is also very busy at work.

Kirov was born on March 27, 1886 in a family of working people in Urrum, Vyatka Province (now Kirov Oblast).

Joined the Bolshevik group in the Tomsk Social Democratic Labor Party in 1904. He was considered 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 Soviet power in Terek and other parts of the North Caucasus.

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

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

In 1926, he went to Leningrad to succeed Zinoviev as a high-ranking official in the prefecture. In Leningrad, he led the local industrial construction, hard-lined the collectivization of agriculture, demolished dozens of churches, and arrested intellectuals who were believed to be fighting against 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 go to the factory to speak directly to the workers.

Since 1930, he has served as the Communist Party of China (cloth).

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

In the early 1920s, in the great debate of the CPSU, he firmly supported Stalin and opposed Trotsky and Zinoviev (the first chairman of the Executive Committee of the Communist International from 1883 to 1936). In 1926, he went to Leningrad to succeed Zinoviev as a high-ranking official of the prefecture.

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

So Kirov is Stalin's most valued subordinate and treats 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.

He didn’t know that an uninvited guest had arrived in the state government. An unemployed party member was hiding in a corner and staring at him.

In 1904, Nikolaev was born in a working family in Petersburg. He lost his father when he was very young, and his body has not been very good. When he grew up, his temperament became abnormally irritable.

At the age of 18, he became a member of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of China (Brazzaville); at the age of 21, he had a warm family: in 1925, he married a Latvian girl, Mirida de la Vule, who was 3 years older than him. Two beautiful sons were born soon. Although he had studied at a communist university, he could never work in any unit for a long time, after changing jobs countless times.

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

Soon thereafter, the Party History Institute recruited party members to join the transportation system, but Nikolaev refused to travel on the railway on the grounds that he was in poor health and should be recuperated, and that he had two young children. .

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

Although not long after his expulsion, Nikolaev’s party membership was restored and he received a suggestion to work in the factory. However, he once carried a briefcase but was not reconciled to doing physical work. He began to frequently report to the party at all levels. Political agencies and leaders-even Stalin himself-wrote letters complaining that they had been treated as inhumane. In a letter to the People's Committee of Health, he also clearly stated his request: "Please answer me before July 1st-let me go to recuperation or not. I should get a recuperation permit."

In addition, he also asked for a recuperation permit to Leningrad Oblast. He didn’t need it yet. He needed to go to the best place to recuperate.

Of course, these complaint letters have not received any response. Moreover, as an unemployed, he was even deprived of his food supply certificate-his family can only be supported by his wife Mirida alone. At that time, Mirida, who had been in the party for 15 years, had served as an inspector for the Leningrad Region Heavy Industry Bureau.

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

In this diary, you can clearly see how he intended to retaliate against those in power and how he prepared for the murder.

In August 1934, Nikolaev was close to madness after a long time of desperation. He not only decided to take revenge, but also prepared to die vigorously. "My shooting will be similar to Zhiyabov's shooting!" In his diary, Nikolayev wrote such an oath. Andrei Zhiyabov 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, doesn't know at all.

is near.

is closer.

Just as Kirov was about to pass by his hidden corner, Nikolaev jumped out suddenly. Two shots were fired at Kirov's head, who hadn't reacted yet, and Kirov, who didn't know anything, fell into a pool of blood.

Nikolayev, who fulfilled his wish, tremblingly raised his pistol to end his life. Thinking of a Politburo member who could accompany him to death, his trembling hands shook harder.

However, his wish to end his life seems impossible to come true. 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 immediate result made everyone feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts, and a huge wave is about to hit. It's just that no one thought of the scale of this huge wave, it was a huge wave that changed everyone's eyes.

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

On the morning of December 2, Stalin, along with many senior leaders such as Molotov and Voroshilov, rushed to Leningrad by special train. As soon as he got off the train, he was scolded at the Leningrad Railway Station. On the day that the national security personnel who came to pick up the station arrived in Leningrad, Stalin personally interrogated Nikolaev. After that, senior security leaders Yagoda, Yezhov, and Agranov also interrogated Nikolaev. However, in all the interrogations, Nikolaev insisted that he used personal weapons alone to complete the murder.

In addition to the trial of Nikolayev, Stalin also decided on December 2 to interrogate another key figure in the case: Kirov’s captain of the guard, Borisov, who was arrested immediately after the incident, was the one who accompanied Kiro. The husband went to the third floor. However, on the way to see Stalin, Paulisov died in a car accident (none of the other people in the car were injured)!

I believe that this "accident" must have deepened Stalin's anger, but also made Stalin feel that death is so close to him. Therefore, Stalin highlighted the other side of his behavior, and an order prepared by himself was issued. In the future, similar cases must be investigated within 10 days, and the death sentence will be executed immediately after the sentence.

Kirov’s body was soon transported to Moscow. On December 6, Stalin personally presided over a grand funeral for him and carried the coffin for him.

Mikoyan once wrote in his memoirs: "The death of Kirov was the most painful thing for the party and the country after Lenin's death. The grief even surpassed the grief of Dzerzhinsky's death. "

However, apart from Stalin, no one thought that this was just a beginning, a beginning that would make everyone unhappy.