398. Stalin: The Great Terror (Part 4)

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for to the ruins of Stalingrad nine years later, this is the story of how Stalin turned terror into the central weapon of his rule. Sergei Kirov was a popular party boss and he was a possible rival to Stalin. Within months he was shot dead in circumstances that were never properly investigated. So Did Stalin order the killing, or did he exploit it to unleash what we now know as the Great Terror?

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