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After the murder of Sergei Kirov on 1 December 1934 led to Stalin's Great Purges, Grigory Zinoviev, Kamenev and their closest associates were once again expelled from the Communist Party and arrested in December 1934.
In this time he wrote a letter to Stalin.
" At a time when my soul is filled with nothing but love for the party and its leadership, when, having lived through hesitations and doubts, I can boldly say that I learned to highly trust the Central Committee's every step and every decision you, Comrade Stalin, make ," Kamenev wrote.
" I have been arrested for my ties to people that are strange and disgusting to me .".
They were tried in January 1935 and were forced to admit " moral complicity " in Kirov's assassination.
Zinoviev was sentenced to ten years in prison and Kamenev to five.
Kamenev was charged separately in early 1935 in connection with the Kremlin Case and, although he refused to confess, was sentenced to ten years in prison.

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