Sergey Minronovich Kirov (1886-1934) Russian Bolshevik leader and friend of Stalin, whose assassination in St Petersburg on 1 December 1934 led to the great purge of Trotsky supporters and other supposed enemies of the state.
Sergey Minronovich Kirov (1886-1934) Russian Bolshevik leader and friend of Stalin, whose assassination in St Petersburg on 1 December 1934 led to the great purge of Trotsky supporters and other supposed enemies of the state.
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