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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. Yagoda also supervised the construction of the White…
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politics · Soviet secret police official (1891–1938) · politician · military personnel · also Genrikh Yagoda, Genrich Jagoda, Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda, Yagoda
Born 7 November 1891 · Died 15 March 1938 · Q141869
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On the 50th anniversary of the trial, the Soviet authorities belatedly cleared all of the other 20 defendants of any criminal offence, admitting that the entire trial was built on false confessions
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Died 1938-03-15.
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Wrote directly to Stalin disowning "our only surviving son" because of "his grave crimes"
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Yagoda's father, Grigori, the jeweller, who was aged 78 in 1938, wrote directly to Stalin disowning "our only surviving son" because of "his grave crimes".
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“We consider it absolutely necessary and urgent that Comrade Yezhov be appointed to head the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. Yagoda has obviously proved unequal to the task of exposing the Trotskyite–Zinovievite bloc. The OGPU was four years late in this matter. All party heads and most of the NKVD agents in the region are talking about this.”
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Career landmark: People's Commissar for Communications of the USSR (1936–1937).
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Or he knew about its activities for some time but covered it up because of his sympathies to the opposition
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Career landmark: People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (1934–1936).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1933).
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Awarded Honoured Worker of the Workers‘ and Peasants’ Militia (1933).
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Awarded Honorary Worker of the VChK–GPU (XV) (1932).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1932).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the Russian SFSR (1932).
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By Leon Trotsky and various other Soviet politicians like Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev
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Yagoda handed his valuable spy $4,000 to buy a car
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1930).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1927).
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"his appearance had changed considerably: he had grown fatter and looked much older and very dignified and important
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Yagoda joined the USSR's head of government, Alexei Rykov, on a ship tour of the Volga
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Awarded Honorary Worker of the VChK–GPU (V) (1922).
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And later recorded that he had thought that "it was unusual for a young man in his early twenties to be so unpleasant
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Joined the army, and was wounded in action
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Born 1891-11-07.
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