It's all about the show and performance than any true power, say what you will about Stalin, but he was WAY more terrifying by simply erasing you from history or using your death as an excuse to purge when he ordered the hit.
I put under the same bracket as the CIA being the ones that killed JFK, there's no hard evidence for it but looking at the aftermath, they profited the most from it.
It's all about the show and performance than any true power, say what you will about Stalin, but he was WAY more terrifying by simply erasing you from history or using your death as an excuse to purge when he ordered the hit.
Most historians claim that there is no hard evidence at all that Stalin ordered the hit on Kirov, or even knew of it.
I put under the same bracket as the CIA being the ones that killed JFK, there's no hard evidence for it but looking at the aftermath, they profited the most from it.
JFK wanted to pump the breaks on the intelligence community. Clearly the CIA and LBJ disagreed.