The Assassination of Sergei Kirov
History Daily1 Dec 2025

The Assassination of Sergei Kirov

December 1, 1934. Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated by a lone gunman, giving Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin the justification to purge the Communist Party of his rivals. This episode originally aired in 2022.


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