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Historama, December 1st
Published: 01 December, 2009, 21:15
Edited: 02 December, 2009, 13:09
Left to right: Winston Churchil, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalinl during the Tehran Conference, 1943
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A glance into the past – Historama reveals a few curious facts that make December 1 a special day in history.
Assassination of a Bolshevik leader
Sergey Kirov was a prominent Soviet political leader and headed the Communist Party’s organization in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He was seen as a potential rival to and critic of Joseph Stalin and his heavy-handed policies. Kirov was assassinated outside his office in Leningrad on this day in 1934.
Although the Party blamed the killing on traitors, some say that Stalin was in fact behind the assassination. His death served as a pretext for Stalin’s persecution campaign against Party members, and ushered in a spate of mass purges of the Party which claimed thousands of lives.
Today a city east of Moscow and a square in the leader's native St. Petersburg both bear his name.
The Tehran Conference
The Big Three powers – the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and United States – convened for the first time during the course of World War II on this day in 1943 in Tehran. Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met face-to-face to discuss the Allied forces’ military strategy.
Among the issues on the agenda was Stalin's request to open a second front in Europe.
Hitler tried to sabotage the conference by sending assassins and planting bombs, but the Nazi agents were caught and forced to send false information back to their superiors.
Legendary Soviet marshal’s birthday
Georgy Zhukov, a Red Army officer during World War II and one of the most titled commanders in Soviet history, was born on December 1, 1896. He gained nationwide recognition for his role in leading the army through the final efforts to liberate the Soviet Union from Nazi occupation and conquer Germany’s capital, Berlin.
He is less known for conducting a nuclear bomb test near the southern Russian town of Orenburg. Despite the suppression of facts surrounding the event, reports claim that some 45,000 people were exposed to radiation, with thousands believed to have died from exposure in the following years.
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