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pecosbob

(8,106 posts)

8. IIRC Stalin had Kirov killed because he became too popular and got more votes in a secret ballot for party secretary.

Reply to Crunchy Frog (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:28 PM

Sep 21

The 1934 Party Congress...out of nineteen hundred party delegates present for the vote, over a thousand were dead within a year. I've got it in an old documentary somewhere...think it was called Russia's War...Blood on the Snow. Great documentary, if a bit dated.

So...tangentially relevant, but draw your own parallels.