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Sergei Kirov is assassinated, paving way for the repressive Great Purge, and Vinnytsia massacre by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.
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Soviet politician and revolutionary (1886–1934)
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1936–1938 campaign in the Soviet Union
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1937–38 mass execution in Ukraine
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Highest political position in the Soviet Union
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Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
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