Word: nicolaev
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...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...
...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's act should not be the model for others...
...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...