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Stalin's closest friend was shot in the back of the head - then nearly 1 million people were executed
On December 1, 1934, Sergei Kirov, one of Joseph Stalin's closest friends and a powerful Soviet official, was shot from behind by Leonid Nikolaev inside Leningrad's heavily guarded Smolny Institute.
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