Nikolai Yezhov

Nikolai Yezhov

Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (May 1, 1895 – February 4, 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin. He was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the most active period of the Great Purge.

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