The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-28

blank forms and stamps of various
government institutions.
Faxed Documents
With the aim of covering traces
Of the crime and concealing his
confederateS, and also with the aim
of masking the real motives of the
murder of Kirov, Nikolaev prepared
a number of documents "a diary
and applications for various insti-
tutions) in which he endeavored to
depict his crime as an act Of per-
sonal despair and dissatisfaction,
owing to an alleged difficult mate
rial situation and as a protest
against "the unjust attitude toward
a living person by various govern
ment officials" Nikolaev himself
admitted the falsity and fictitious
ness of such version, explaining
that he concocted this version by a
preliminary agreement with men,
bers of the terrorist group, who de-
cided to depict the murder of Kirov
as an individual act and thus con-
ceal the real motives of the crime.
In his testimony of Dec. 10 Niko-
laev directly stated:
II should have depicted the muir
der of Kirov as an individual act in
order to conceal the participation
Of the Zinoviev group in it." This
circumstance is also confirmed by
the fact that Nikolaev, as was estab-
lished exhaustively during the proc
ess of the investigation, decisiyely
and Systematically rejected any pro-
posal to find work for him on the
grounds that weak health and the
necessity for study, or any other cir
cumstance which he professed, pre-
vented him from starting work.
Killer Well Of
The investigation established by
the testimony of a number of wit
nesses, including that of Nikolaev's
mother and wife, that Nikolaev did
not suffer any material want and
likewise his family was not in want.
The absence of any material diff
f1culties for Nikolaev is also shown
by the fact that he occupied q we'll
furnished and big fiat and had
rented country house at Sestro-
retski, a. resort on the shores of the
Gulf of Finland. The material
situation of Nikolaev and his A.
nances can be judged also by his
own testimony on receiving con-
siderable sums of money from a
certain consul. Nikolaev directly
states in his testimony:
81 informed Kotolinov that 1 de-
cided not to obtain a job during the
period of preparation for the act so
that I should have enough free time
to carry out the murder of Kirov
Kotolinov approved my decision"
T h investigation considers
proven that in the summer of 1884
in Leningrad an underground
counter-revolutionary terrorist
group, consisting of former mem
bers of the Zinoviev anti-Soviet
bloc, was organized and had the
aim of disorganizing the leadership
of the Soviet Government by ter
rorist acts directed against the lead
ers Of Soviet power, attempting to
change the present policy in the
spirit of the so-called zinoviev-
Trotzkyite platform; that the ac-
cused Nikolaev, Kotolinov, Myas-
nikov, Shatski, Mandelstam, Soko-
low, zvezdov, Yuskin, Rumyantsev,
Antonovantonov, Hank, Tolnlazov
Levin and Sositsky were members
Of this underground counter-revo-
lutionary terrorist group; that this
group was directed by the illegal
terrorist "Leningrad Center" con-
sisting Of the accused Kotolinov
Shatski, Rumyantsev, Mandelstam
Myasnikov, Levin, Sositsly and
Nikolaev; that the counter -revolu-
zionist terrorist Leningrad Center
on the grounds mentioned above OF
criminal aims and also of the
quoted motives of vengeance
against Sergei Kirov, member OF
the Presidium of the Central Ex-
ecutive Committee of the U. s. s
r., member of the Political Bureau
of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, and secretary of the Gen.
trail and Leningrad Committees oil
the G. P. S. u, who had ideologi-
, cally and politically smashed the
. Leningrad group of the former
zinovievites, worked out the plar
, and organized the murder of Serge
Kirov, which was carried out By
Nikolaev Gu Dec. l.
| Nikolaev fully admitted his guilt
Kotolinov pleaded guilty to belong