“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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