Nikolai Yezhov
1895
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1940
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
languages spoken, written or signed: Russian
occupation: politician, military personnel
award received: Order of Lenin, Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army", Order of the Red Banner, Honorary officer of the State Security
position held: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, member of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR of the 1st convocation
influenced by: Joseph Stalin
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Ежо́в, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈɫaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture and executions during the Great Purge, but he fell from Stalin's favour and was arrested, subsequently admitting in a confession to a range of anti-Soviet activity including "unfounded arrests" during the Purge. He was executed in 1940 along with others who were blamed for the Purge. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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