Word: assassinations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editorials in the 100% official Press were extremely guarded, but Pravda admitted that dissident elements now exist "within the party." Conviction grew that the Kirov assassination was indeed a major inside job, the only kind of job that could conceivably get the Dictator himself. On the growing hypothesis that steel-nerved Stalin for once has been badly scared, his executions of "pure terror'' and continued arrests were understandable last week. Down in Kiev, ancient, church-jammed Mother Town of All The Russias, star chamber trials continued under famed Judge Ulrich. Meanwhile Comrade Nicolaev, the assassin of "Dear Friend...
...blood purge," they at least were accused of plotting with that plug-ugly pederast Captain Ernst Roehm (TIME, July 9). Last week Josef Stalin resorted to more drastic Bolshevik Terror, terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express the Government's determination that Nicolaev...
...Assassin Nicolaev himself was being carefully nursed in a Leningrad hospital, doctors hoping to prevent Death from his self-inflicted wound and the beating he received. If saved, he was expected to go, first to the Gay-pay-oo for third degree, then into a monster Soviet propaganda trial and finally before a firing squad Last week the Gay-pay-oo were reported to have shot his 85-year-old mother, his wife, his daughters and his sons?in addition to the 66 executions of pure Bolshevik Terror...
...same thing happened in the case of my uncle the Grand Duke Sergei.? The police very quickly discovered there was no local plot and only the assassin was executed. There was no imprisonment of others. The law courts of Russia in those days were extremely just and there was very little corruption...
...What has just taken place in Russia only goes to prove that the present regime is not what the world has come to think it is. ... The extermination of the whole family of the assassin is beyond words. Such a thing has not happened in Russia since Ivan the Terrible...