Nikolai Yezhov
Soviet politician
Died when: 44 years 279 days (537 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: ??????´? ???´????? ???´?, IPA: [n??k?'?aj ?'van?v??t?? (j)?'?of]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge.
Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture and executions during the Great Purge, but he fell from Stalin's favour and was arrested, subsequently admitting in a confession (that he later claimed was taken under torture) to a range of anti-Soviet activity including "unfounded arrests" during the Purge.
He was executed in 1940 along with others who were blamed for the Purge.
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