The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" and the leadership of the Red Army.
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.
Everywhere the same question: Who will rule Russia? If a triumvirate, can it long endure or does the Soviet structure demand a single head? Will there be orderly elimination or violence? If violence, .
Dictators are sensitive about the biographies written about them.
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The people of Georgia have no reason to love Joseph Stalin.