The Italian-Egyptian war did not cause any disturbance in Europe. Life and work still need to be done. As the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Leningrad Oblast Committee, Kirov still needs to devote himself to busy work.
at work.
As the top leader of the Leningrad Oblast, Kirov has a very heavy job. As the largest port city in the Soviet Union, the Leningrad Oblast has a lofty status 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 completed in the Leningrad Region, which all 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 Ulrum, Vyatka Province (now Kirov Oblast) into a family of working people.
In 1904, he joined the Bolshevik group of the Tomsk Social Democratic Labor Party, 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 Oblast and other areas of the North Caucasus.
In March 1921, he was elected Communist Party leader at the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
In 1923, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In the early 1920s, in the great debate of the Soviet Communist Party, he firmly supported Stalin and opposed Trotsky and Zinovi.
husband.
In 1926, he went to Leningrad to succeed Zinoviev as a high-ranking state official. In Leningrad, he led the local industrial construction, vigorously promoted agricultural collectivization, demolished dozens of churches, and arrested people who were considered to be against socialist construction.
At the same time, he was outstanding in eloquence. Among the members of the Politburo at that time, he was the only one who dared to go to the factory to speak directly to the workers.
In 1930, he served as the Communist Party leader of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks).
Although Kirov ranked only eighth in the Politburo, he was a staunch follower of Stalin.
In the early 1920s, in the great debate of the Soviet Communist Party, 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
He went to Leningrad to succeed Zinoviev as a high-ranking state official.
At the same time, he had a very close personal relationship with Stalin. Stalin's guards once said in their memoirs that after a long chat, Stalin was even willing to give up his bed to Kirov, while he went to sleep on the sofa.
Therefore, Kirov was Stalin's most valued subordinate and regarded him as his successor.
December 1 was a very ordinary day. At 4:30 in the afternoon, Kirov finished a meeting and walked to his office.
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.
Nikolaev was born in a working-class family in Petersburg in 1904. He lost his father when he was very young, and his health was not good. When he grew up, his temperament became extremely irritable.
At the age of 18, he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks); at the age of 21, he had a warm family: in 1925, he married the Latvian girl Milida De Laoulie, who was 3 years older than him.
He 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 transferred to the Leningrad Institute of Party History and served as a mobile propagandist for party history.
Shortly thereafter, the Party History Institute internally recruited party members to join the transportation system, but Nikolaev refused to go on a long business trip on the railway, on the grounds that he was in poor health and needed to recuperate, and he also had two young children.
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As a result, he was double fired. Not only was he expelled from the party, but he was also expelled from public office.
Although Nikolayev's party membership was restored shortly after he was expelled and he received the suggestion to work in a factory, he was not willing to do physical work as he once carried a briefcase. He began to frequently report to the party at all levels.
Government agencies and leaders - even Stalin himself - wrote letters 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 it before July 1
Give me the answer - let me go to recuperation or not. It's time for me to get a recuperation license."
In addition, he also requested that he did not want a license to recuperate in the Leningrad Oblast. He needed to go to the best place for recuperation.
Of course, these letters of complaint received no response. Moreover, as an unemployed person, he was even deprived of his food supply certificate - his family could only be supported by his wife Milida. At that time, Milida, who had 15 years of party experience
Da has served as an inspector of the Leningrad Region Heavy Industry Bureau.
In addition to writing letters of accusation to party and government agencies at all levels, Nikolaev began writing an autobiographical diary. In the diary, he wrote that he was 30 years old and planned to leave this autobiography to his son Marx and his wife
Leonid made a memorial. As an unemployed man, he had a lot of time to do this.
In this diary, we can clearly see how he set out to take revenge on those in power and how he prepared for this murder.
In August 1934, the long period of frustration had driven Nikolayev to the verge of madness. He not only decided to take revenge, but also prepared to die spectacularly. “My shooting will be similar to Zhlyapov’s shooting!
"In the diary, Nikolaev wrote such an oath. Andrei Zhlyapov is a famous assassin in Russian history. He was one of the masterminds of the assassination of Russian Emperor Alexander II.
And now he is very close to his goal, and Kirov, who is the target, has no idea at all.
Close.
Closer.
Just when Kirov was about to pass by the corner where he was hiding, Nikolaev suddenly jumped out. He aimed two shots at Kirov's head, who had not yet reacted, and was hit in the back of the head.
Kirov, who knew nothing, fell into a pool of blood.
After fulfilling his wish, Nikolaev tremblingly raised his pistol and planned to end his life. Thinking that a member of the Politburo could die with him, his trembling hands trembled even more.
However, it seemed that his wish to end his life could not be realized. The staff and security personnel rushed out after hearing the sound and 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 from the bottom of their hearts. A huge wave was about to hit. But no one thought of the scale of this huge wave. This was a huge wave that made everyone change their mind.
After the news of Kirov's murder reached Moscow, Stalin was furious and immediately ordered the preparation of a special train to go to Leningrad to investigate the case in person.
On the morning of December 2, Stalin, together with Molotov, Voroshilov and many other senior leaders, took a special train to Leningrad. As soon as they got off the train, he scolded the people in front of him at the Leningrad Railway Station.
National security personnel who came to pick up the station.
On the day he arrived in Leningrad, Stalin personally interrogated Nikolaev. Later, senior security leaders Yagoda, Yezhov, and Aglanov also interrogated Nikolaev. However, in
During all interrogations, Nikolaev insisted that he carried out the murders alone and with his personal weapon.
In addition to interrogating Nikolaev, Stalin also decided to interrogate another key figure in the case on December 2: Kirov’s guard captain Borisov, who was arrested immediately after the incident and who accompanied Kirov.
The husband went to the third floor. However, on the way to see Stalin, Borisov died in a car accident (no one else in the car was injured)!
I believe that this "accident" must have deepened Stalin's anger and made him feel that death was so close to him. Therefore, Stalin highlighted another side of his behavior and issued an order that he personally prepared. Similar cases will follow.
The investigation must be concluded within 10 days, and the capital punishment sentence will be executed immediately.
Kirov's body was quickly 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 was the most painful thing for the party and the country after the death of Lenin. The sadness even exceeded the sadness of Dzerzhinsky's death.
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However, except for Stalin, no one thought that this was just the beginning, a beginning that made everyone feel ashamed.
