<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Kirov" id="mwqg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sergei Kirov">Sergei Kirov</a> is <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Sergei_Kirov" id="mwqw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assassination of Sergei Kirov">assassinated</a>, paving way for the repressive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge" id="mwrA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Great Purge">Great Purge</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnytsia_massacre" id="mwrQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vinnytsia massacre">Vinnytsia massacre</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mwrg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" id="mwrw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>.<sup about="#mwt57" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_1#cite_note-11" id="mwsA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwsQ">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11">Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery<a class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/knight-kirov.html" id="mwCAw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"></a></span>