Nikolai Yezhov

Also known as Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, Nikolay Ivanovich Yezhov

NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)

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Nikolai Yezhov was the head of the Soviet secret police under Stalin from 1936 to 1938, a period marked by massive purges and executions that killed hundreds of thousands of people. His role in organizing this terror makes him a significant but dark figure in understanding Stalin's brutal dictatorship and one of history's deadliest regimes.

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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Николай Иванович Ежов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940), also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture, and executions during the Great Purge, but he fell out of favor with Joseph Stalin and was arrested, subsequently admitting in a confession to a range of anti-Soviet activity including "unfounded arrests" during the Great Purge. He was executed in 1940 along with others who were blamed for the Great Purge.

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