Word: nikolaev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambassador, not an art director, was Agha's early ambition. A dark, widish man, son of a landowner and tobacco magnate who had kept his Turkish citizenship, he was born 43 years ago at Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...
Except for the confession of Assassin Nikolaev who was later shot, the confessions last week were by far the most important to the Kirov case. Over 100 Russians had been shot for confessing less, some after admitting mere "ideological community" with the "spirit of the crime." What super-punishment could Judge Ulrich mete out to these super-guilty secret police...
Rigidly barred from the Soviet Union last week was a brief blast from Great Exile Leon Trotsky, scholarly elaborator of the Doctrine of Permanent Revolution and No. 1 enemy of Stalin. At the Kirov trials, the State has charged that an unnamed "foreign consul" in Leningrad gave Assassin Nikolaev money and asked him for "a letter to Trotsky...