COMMUNIST SLAIN.
CLOSE FRIEND OF STALIN.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 1
It Is announced that Sergei Mironovich Kirov has been assassinated " by a murderer sent on behalf of the enemies of ,the working classes." Kirov, who was aged 48, was a member of the inner circle of Communist rulers. lie was a close friend and' co-worker of Stalin and was regarded in some circles as Stalin’s probable successor.
/TLL RUSSIA MOURNS.
PROMINENT FIGURE REMOVED,
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MOSCOW, Dec. 2
Kirov’s assassin is Leonid Vallilievich Nicolaev, aged 30, an ex-emiJloyee of the Workers’ and Peasants’ inspection Bureau.
Nicolaev burst into Kirov’s study at Smoiny Palace and shot him with a revolver.
Kirov was a notable orator and a stern Leninist. lie helped to defend Astrakhan in 1918 and also rout Denikin, and re-establish the Soviet in the Northern Caucusus.
The press extols him and all Russia mourns him. All the theatres are closed and the body is lying in state.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19430, 3 December 1934, Page 7
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