WEBVTT 00:00:00.050 --> 00:00:12.970 Comrades! Moscow Bolsheviks, workers and laboring classes, together with our comrade Leningraders 00:00:14.750 --> 00:00:23.950 who, together with the working people of the Union experienced the difficult loss of our Kirov. 00:00:25.300 --> 00:00:31.655 The entire Soviet Union is in mourning. It is national mourning. 00:00:33.700 --> 00:00:50.325 The hero and the leader of the Bolsheviks, the organizer of the workers of the glorious city of Lenin is a hero of our entire country. 00:00:52.500 --> 00:01:01.540 The struggle for the greatness of the party is a struggle for the greatness of our entire great motherland. 00:01:02.500 --> 00:01:12.100 That's why the whole country, from old to young, is going through the weighty loss of their kindred favorite Comrade Kirov. 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:25.715 Comrade Kirov was a model leader, a leader bound together with the masses, coming from the people, 00:01:28.900 --> 00:01:39.720 who devoted his entire life to the people and gave his life for the people, for the working class, for his Party, for the cause of communism. 00:01:40.900 --> 00:01:54.605 Comrade Kirov was the model of the Bolshevik organizer who, starting as a rank-and-file member, 00:01:55.800 --> 00:02:05.140 ending as leader and organizer of the Leningrad workers and our entire country. 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:13.335 As an outstanding leader, Comrade Kirov at the same time knew what it was to be a rank-and-file member. 00:02:14.100 --> 00:02:27.345 He was able to see life in all its facets, was able, along with the leadership of this great edifice, 00:02:28.500 --> 00:02:41.145 to pay attention to and correct the seemingly most minor but in fact most important questions of life and building. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:53.730 From organizer of a clandestine printing press in Tomsk - to the leader of Leningrad and the workers of the whole country, 00:02:55.500 --> 00:03:06.535 from soldier-commander, political leader of the defense of Astrakhan, to master-builder of Volkhovstroi 00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:12.200 to the people's tribune -- that was the path of Comrade Kirov. 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:22.930 Comrade Kirov was the best speaker in our party, he lit the hearts of millions with his fiery speech. 00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:30.510 And Comrade Kirov matched his words with deeds. This distinguishing feature of Bolsheviks 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:39.875 was particularly strong and noticeable in Comrade Kirov: word and deed were one! 00:03:40.700 --> 00:03:56.385 Comrade Kirov was able to rally the people ideologically. He knew how to educate them not only by orders and directives. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:07.320 He knew how to set their hearts on fire with his ideological integrity and devotion to the cause of communism. 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:19.680 He was an ideological educator, a talented organizer and builder, commander on all fronts 00:04:20.100 --> 00:04:30.715 of our great socialist construction. And not for nothing was Comrade Kirov 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:40.470 the best friend of our great Comrade Stalin builder of this socialist land. 00:04:42.200 --> 00:04:50.585 From this podium, from here on the mausoleum, not so long ago, during the XVII Congress of our party, 00:04:51.600 --> 00:05:00.585 Moscow workers together with delegates to the XVII Congress listened to Comrade Kirov's fiery speech. 00:05:01.200 --> 00:05:08.640 He spoke of struggle, of great victories, of the impending victory of communism. 00:05:09.900 --> 00:05:18.635 At the XVII Congress of our Party, Comrade Kirov summed up the results of our struggle: 00:05:19.300 --> 00:05:33.455 "Our success are really enormous. The devil knows if we can humanly say we so want to live and live." 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:51.500 The cruel hand of the murderer stopped the life of this great fighter and leader of the masses, 00:05:51.570 --> 00:05:59.470 who led them into battle in the Civil War and the Great Socialist construction. 00:06:00.830 --> 00:06:12.795 But Comrade Kirov will live forever in the hearts and minds of millions of workers. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:22.250 Comrade Kirov fought for communism. Communism will triumph no only in our country, but throughout the whole world. 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:39.500 Today, saying goodbye to Comrade Kirov, we, the Moscow Bolsheviks and workers, along with workers all over the Union, 00:06:39.700 --> 00:06:47.250 say to our Leningrad comrades who have suffered a particularly sensitive loss, 00:06:47.300 --> 00:06:50.000 and say to the Central Committee of the party: 00:06:50.850 --> 00:07:07.945 We swear by our dedication, vigilance, hard work, and our revolutionary determination to avenge this heavy loss. 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:19.750 We know that our comrades in Leningrad suffered a particularly serious loss in Kirov, because every day they worked under his guidance. 00:07:20.300 --> 00:07:23.200 We know how much Comrade Kirov did for Leningrad 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:35.620 We know that Comrade Kirov secured the blooming of the city of Leningrad and Leningrad industry. 00:07:36.170 --> 00:07:43.710 We know how that Comrade Kirov rallied the Leningrad Bolshevik organization. We know that in difficult times, 00:07:44.470 --> 00:07:58.780 when agents of class enemies appeared even in our Party, Comrade Kirov managed to unite Leningrad 00:07:59.200 --> 00:08:12.465 as a reliable bulwark, as the vanguard of our party. We Muscovites learned a lot from Leningrad in its work, in its struggle. 00:08:13.500 --> 00:08:19.645 The growth of progressive Leningrad was best secured for Bolsheviks by Comrade Kirov. 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:31.980 The enemies who sent the vile verminous killer, hoped that this would bring confusion to our ranks, 00:08:33.630 --> 00:08:47.390 upset the ranks of fighters. They were wrong! Our ranks have become even stronger! We are the victors! 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:55.640 We have already achieved much, and we are confident in our future victories. 00:08:56.400 --> 00:09:01.790 We not only will not upset our ranks for a second, we not only will not allow for confusion, 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:07.120 but we will unite more closely around the Central Committee. 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:16.595 We will fight even harder, even more boldly for our cause. 00:09:17.500 --> 00:09:24.315 We will be even more determined to deal with the vile enemies who does not sleep. 00:09:24.700 --> 00:09:31.125 We will demonstrate even greater vigilance and with our dedication 00:09:32.100 --> 00:09:42.135 the victory of the cause for which Comrade Kirov fought all his conscious revolutionary life 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:52.120 we will ensure the victory of communism throughout the world!