Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Communist leader Sergei Mironovich Kirov was born 140 years ago on 27 March 1886.

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On #ThisDayInHistory, #SergeiKirov was assassinated in #Leningrad in 1934. The death of a senior member of the #CommunistParty of the #USSR was used by #Stalin as an excuse to launch the #GreatPurge, leading to massacres, show-trials, and expansion of the #gulag prison system.

Soviet leader Sergei Mironovich Kirov, early 1930s.

At this time, Kirov was Secretary of the Leningrad Region of the Communist Party and a member of the Politburo and Central Committee of the All-Union Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

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Soviet leader Sergei Kirov photographed inspecting the construction of the White Sea - Baltic Canal June 1932.

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Sergei Mironovich Kirov was born 27th March 1886 in Urzhum in Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire. He would become a Bolshevik revolutionary and a top Russian and Soviet leader and politician in the early Stalin era

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