Word: nicolaev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial of the assassin of the Dictator's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). Two thousand Red Army troops, their greatcoats nearly sweeping the ground, guarded historic Smolny Institute. There Red Boss Kirov of Leningrad was shot in his Party headquarters, and there last week Assassin Nicolaev was tried in blackest secrecy...
Government press releases supplied the only details. Nicolaev was said to have laughed at his judges, perhaps hysterical after nearly a month under third degree. Another accused conspirator, said the Government, fainted dead away...
...anyone familiar with Soviet trials the document offered as Assassin Nicolaev's confession bore earmarks of labored composition by the Gay-pay-oo. It confessed that an unspecified foreign consul† gave Nicolaev 5,000 rubles and offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...
...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 Sergei," remained alive awaiting trial...
...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...