tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937285970642106606.post9050632845839701937..comments2024-03-27T20:47:32.937-04:00Comments on Morton's Musings: Kirov was murdered by a lone gunmanJames C Mortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15997892627068235554noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937285970642106606.post-76029949077112932422013-11-24T01:34:36.929-05:002013-11-24T01:34:36.929-05:00It sounds more like a Stalinist conspiracy than th...It sounds more like a Stalinist conspiracy than the revenge killing of a rival by a jealous husband. There were whole layers of loyal Stalinist bureaucrats and functionaries, NKVD agents associated with state security and the ensuing investigation into Kirov's murder liquidated in purges, and not simply the family, friends, neighbours, former colleagues and past acquaintances of the unfortunate Nikolayaev who disappeared during prison interrogations or into the gulag.<br /><br />The Western media hardly distinguished itself during this period. All sorts of slanderous lies and vile accusations of incredible sordid crimes by Soviet oppositionists Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, and later Bukharin were printed in publications such as the New York Times by journalists such as Walter Duranty, accusing Soviet oppositionists of mass poisonings in Soviet factory cafeterias ( probably the result of listeriosis, ecoli or spoiled food poisoning), of power failures, train derailments ( deliberate acts of sabotage), food shortages in the Ukraine, etc.<br /><br />Western liberals sympathetic to Stalin's rule pleaded with American philosopher John Dewey not to provide "progressive cover" to "objectively reactionary", "anti-Soviet" and "fascist" purpose by participating and lending his prestige to Trotsky's Commission of Enquiry into the Moscow Trials.... Renehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969453615157584548noreply@blogger.com