Up before famed Judge Vassily Ulrich, “Stalin’s Executioner,” stood Comrade Feodor Medved, Chief of the Gay-pay-op in Leningrad where Kirov was assassinated. With Comrade Medved were ...

The 1934 murder of Sergei Kirov shook the Soviet Union and became one of its greatest historical mysteries. Was it a lone gunman, or did Stalin orchestrate the killing to justify his purges? This deep ...

Popular hypothesis: “Dear Friend Sergei” Kirov, mentioned in Russia before his death with increasing frequency as an eventual successor to Stalin, was shot by order of the careful Dictator who ...

As already indicated, the Kirov—named for Bolshevik revolutionary and Joseph Stalin toady Sergei Mironovich Kirov (March 27, 1886—December 1, 1934) —was the lead ship of the class laid down ...