Disappearance of Joe's Friends
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Seen on FB:
The disappearance of StaIin's advisers. This picture was taken in 1926 and portrays StaIin with party bosses Nikolai Antipov, Sergey Kirov, and Nikolai Shvernik (from left to right). One by one, all except StaIin disappeared from the picture.
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Kirov however was never made into an unperson. In fact he was posthumously lionized as a hero who was a victim of Trotskyist conspirators. Arguably, Stalin used his murder in 1934 to initiate the show trials and later blood purges of the Great Terror in ‘37 and ‘38.
