On December 1st 1934 an event took place, which triggered the Great Purge of the party in the Soviet Union. Sergie Kirov, a member of the Politburo was mysteriously murdered by Nikolayev. ... trial and they were either executed or sent to prison. Charges ranged from Sabotage to political crimes, to spying. The horrific purges continued all the way through to 1953. How exactly were the innocent Russians picked up and taken to their deaths prison or deported too far off places? Tanya Shabarshenkova says, "My grandfather, they came ... the woman I love presents me with the a child the first word...

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... has proved very difficult to achieve these objectives during the last ten years (Harris). The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than just a political event. The powerful interaction and fusion between politics and economics that characterized the state socialist system created a situation that was unique for the successor states of the Soviet Union. The penetration ... , as well as the Soviet Army. The Soviet Union became a superpower, with the United States being the only country in contention for this title. After Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushchev became First ...

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