Dmitry Puchkov (№ 424404)

Yes, Nikolaev moved in such an environment where there were conversations ... To say that these were conversations of conspirators - we have no such grounds. ... And there was talk that it was better under Zinoviev, that Kirov was a bureaucrat, that Moscow was in command, that Leningrad was in iron hoops with him. Yes, there were such conversations. But at the same time, no one inspired Nikolayev to go and kill Kirov. He made this decision himself. He thought of himself as a hero, a fighter against tyranny, dreamed of repeating the feat of the Narodnaya Volya. That is, the person was clearly not himself, insane. And on the basis of life failures, he came to the idea of revenge on a high-ranking person