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Max Shachtman: Behind the Kirov Assassination (1935) |
 | | At the same time, such terrorists, when apprehended, have never made it a practise to conceal the political motive behind their act by the claim that the affair was purely personal – just the contrary. |
| | Examples in both camps: Maria Spiridonova, Vera Figner, Boris Savinkov, Raoul Vilain. |
| | If the Stalinist version is accepted, we shall have, we believe, the first case on record of a political terrorist seeking to deny the political nature of his act and admitting it only weeks afterward under stress. |
| www.marxists.org /archive/shachtma/1935/01/kirov.htm (3708 words) |
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