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Stalin's closest friend was shot in the back of the head - then nearly 1 million people were executed
On December 1, 1934, Sergei Kirov, one of Joseph Stalin's closest friends and a powerful Soviet official, was shot from behind by Leonid Nikolaev inside Leningrad's heavily guarded Smolny Institute.
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They fought to replace Stalin - only one of them was executed
Stalin's final days began after another late-night gathering with some of the Soviet Union's most powerful officials. The ...
MINSK (Reuters) - Belarusians gathered in Minsk on Monday to commemorate more than 100 people, including 22 writers and poets, who were executed by the NKVD secret service on Oct. 29, 1937 during ...
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