A history lesson:
Sergei Kirov was one of the top people in the Soviet Communist Party at the time of his assassination in December 1934. His assassin was an expelled party member who was unemployed and in financial difficulties, and was apparently motivated by a desire for revenge for his circumstances.
However, Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin and his flunkies seized the opportunity to allege that a wide range of 'enemies of the state' (i.e. dissenting voices within the party) were responsible for the assassination and launched the Great Purge in which, ultimately, millions of Soviet citizens were murdered by the state.
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