Talk:Sergey Kirov
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[edit] The votes against Stalin
The number of votes against Stalin appears to be different in different sources. The memoirs of Anastas Mikoyan, chapter 48, available online in Russian [1] claims 287 votes. Mikoyan credits the information to Olga Shatunovskaya, who chaired a committee investigating Great Purges. Several other Russian webpages (i.e., [2]) claim 292, also crediting the number to Shatunovskaya committee. I will put 292 into the article for now, since it appears in more sources. If anyone has different information, let me know.
Another source [3] makes even more striking claim: Stalin had received a 100 yes votes and 1100 no votes. Stalin's people would then figure out everyone who voted "no" by their handwriting (they had to write in a candidate instead of the vote they were voting against) and those people would be executed during purges. I am not sure about the credibility of the claim and I am not including it because of that. Andris 01:11, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)
In Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Stalin the Court of the Red Tsar" (p. 132) the author states that 166 ballots went missing and that Stalin received somewhere between 123 and 292 negative votes.130.237.175.198 07:31, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The huge Kirov's statue in Baku
I added some informations and a link about the huge Kirov's statue that dominated the panorama of the city of Baku from 1939 to 1991. Regards!
Virgilio 22:06, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Misspelling
"Chitye Prudi" as a station should be "Chistiye Prudy" or whatever. You're missing an S
[edit] repetitive sentences
In the first paragprah the last sentence is: "He became a Marxist and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1904. He was assassinated in 1934."
Next paragraph: "Becoming a Marxist, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1904."
Could we remove one of these? Anatoly larkin 02:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sergei or Sergey?
title and picture caption say sergey, within the article it is sergei... make up your fucking minds! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.219.142 (talk) 03:18, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Alleged
We are told of the possibility of a random act of violence. The assassin, Nikolaiyev, had a valid NKVD pass
and had arrranged for the guards in the corridors to disappear. He also arranged for Borisov, Kirov's personal body guard, to vanish. All this is hardly consistent with a private motive. A good account of Kirov's death is given by Conquest and Khrushchev, for that matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.230.157 (talk) 08:24, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Trivia
I have changed the trivia section into references in popular culture. I also removed the sentence "Kirov was a very popular figure during his reign in Leningrad" as it doesn't really fit anywhere and is hard to source. --TheCooperman (talk) 17:07, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
