Examine the two pages of evidence in the Kirov Murder Mystery reading. After reviewing the evidence, make your own judgments by answer the following questions.
1. In what circumstances did the assassin carry out the murder?
He hid in the shadows and waited for Kirov to walk by and when Kirov did he shot him in the back of the head.
2. What strange coincidences surround the murder?
Kirov left his bodyguard downstairs this time, and the usual guards were absent from the corridors.
3. Is there any evidence to link Stalin to the murder?
Kirov was more popular than Stalin and had opposed Stalin
over the Ryutin affair and over the pace of industrialisation.
4. Is there any evidence to suggest that the NKVD was involved in the murder?
key witness was going to be Borisov, Kirov's bodyguard. But on the way to
be questioned at the Smolny Institute, in a truck with several KVDmen,
there was an accident in which he was killed and nobody else was hurt. Leading Leningrad NKVD men were accused of not protecting Kirov
5. Who had the best motive for the murder?
I'm thinking either Stalin or the NKVD
6. What theories can you suggest about who was responsible - was it the assassin alone or were others involved?
I think that someone did help the assassin because it said that someone had practiced shooting a revovler with him before the murder and how the whole murder went down was just too well planned. Also it was like Kirov's bodyguard was killed so no one would figure anything out and when everyone was being questioned, the assassin told Stalin to ask the NKVD.
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