On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 06:57 PM, David Walters wrote: > > ... *no one* continues to claim or charge that Stalin had Kirov killed. I > don't know who does *except in the most informal of discussions.* it was of > course a completely understandable assumption in the 1930s but that is all > it was, an assumption. Even Trotsky isn't hard and fast on the question. > >
"most informal of discussions"?! What a weasel phrase. "No one"?! Just put stalin killed kirov inurl:communist into Google. From one of many items that come up: Stalin had Kirov, the Leningrad party chief, assassinated and used it as a pretext to arrest his opponents. https://communist.red/the-moscow-trials-a-lesson-from-history/ Oct. 2012 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34701): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34701 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110691249/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
