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Genrikh Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who directed the NKVD during the Great Purge. He was a victim of the Purge himself, arrested and executed in 1938 after a show trial.
Genrikh Yagoda was a Bolshevik leader and the head of the NKVD under Stalin from 1934 to 1936. He was involved in the assassination of Kirov and the public trials of Zinovyev and Kamenev, but he was executed in 1938 after being accused of being a Trotskyite.
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The Great Purge was a series of mass executions and imprisonments of political opponents, military leaders, and ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the NKVD, was one of the main perpetrators of the purge until he was executed by Stalin in 1938.
Apr 2, 2015 · Russia's highest court on Thursday refused to legally rehabilitate Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Soviet-era NKVD secret police who oversaw Stalinist purges in the 1930s and set up the GULAG ...
Jan 7, 2023 · To continue my previous video about the NKVD, I will talk about the NKVD notorious chairman - Genrikh Yagoda, the creator of the GULAG. As a manager, he saw ...
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Learn about the history and activities of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police that carried out Stalin's purges and espionage abroad. Find out how Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the NKVD, orchestrated the assassination of Kirov and the trial of Zinoviev and Kamenev.
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Genrikh Yagoda was a Soviet politician and the head of the secret police from 1934 to 1936. He was executed in 1938 after a show trial for allegedly being a tsarist and Nazi agent.
