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Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич Яго́да, romanized: Genrikh Grigor'yevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security
Jun 10, 2024 · Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (born 1891, Łodz, Pol., Russian Empire—died March 15, 1938, Moscow) was the head of the Soviet secret police under Stalin from 1934 to 1936 and a central figure in the purge trials.
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Starting in 1936, the NKVD under chief Genrikh Yagoda began the removal of the central party leadership, Old Bolsheviks, government officials, and regional party bosses. Soviet politicians who opposed or criticized Stalin were removed from office and imprisoned or executed by the NKVD.
YAGODA, GENRIKH GRIGOREVICH. (1891 – 1938), state security official, general commissar of state security (1935). Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda was a native of Rybinsk, the son of an artisan and the second cousin of the revolutionary leader Yakov Sverdlov, to whose niece he was married.
May 9, 2024 · Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda. Great Purge, three widely publicized show trials and a series of closed, unpublicized trials held in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, in which many prominent Old Bolsheviks were found guilty of treason and executed or imprisoned.
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Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge.
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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.
