Things to Do in Kirovsk
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Local Time 2:02 am Saturday, July 26, 2008
Kirovsk Map
Kirovsk Map
on February 17, 2008
It represents one of the Soviet idols – Sergey Kirov, the Communist party boss of Leningrad region, who was murdered in his office in the Smolny Institute that housed the Communist party regional committee on December 1, 1934.
His death was used by the authorities as a pretext of mortal repressions against the Soviet people. Those purges cost lives of millions of innocent people all over the Soviet Union.
Kirov himself was made an idol by the Communist party leadership and Stalin himself.
Who knows, maybe it was “Old Joe Stalin” himself who organized the conspiracy to put Kirov out of the way as a possible rival and then used his death as a pretext for the massive paranoia purges directed against any possible opposition in the society, thus killing two birds with one stone…
