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Kirov Statue

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Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
Kirov Statue
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Pushkinskaya St., Murmansk, Russia

Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a close, personal friend to Joseph Stalin, and a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the party organization in Leningrad. On 1 December 1934, Kirov was shot and killed by a gunman at his offices in the Smolny Institute. There is a widespread belief that Joseph Stalin and elements of the NKVD were behind Kirov's assassination, but Many historians place the blame for his assassination, but evidence for this claim remains lacking. Kirov's death was later used as a pretext for Stalin's escalation of repression against dissident elements of the Party, and disarming of the Party , culminating in the Great Purge of the late 1930s in which many of the Old Bolsheviks were arrested, expelled from the party, and executed. Complicity in Kirov's assassination was a common charge to which the accused confessed in the show trials of the period. The cities of Kirov, Kirovohrad, Kirovakan, and Kirovabad, as well as a few Kirovsks, were renamed in Kirov's honor after his assassination. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kirovakan and Kirovabad returned to their original names: Vanadzor and Ganja, respectively. In order to comply with decommunization laws, Kirovohrad was renamed in July 2016 by the Ukrainian parliament to Kropyvnytskyi.
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