Word: genrikh
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...this state butchery, Russia's Puppet President Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was obliged by the Dictator to cancel with a stroke of the pen most of the "progress" ostentatiously made when the Gay-pay-oo was transformed into the Commissariat of Interior under its Gay-pay-oo chief, Comrade Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda (TIME, July 23). Last week Stalin was said to be so vexed with Yagoda that he had suspended him as Commissar of Interior. The decree of President Kalinin deprived persons arrested not only of any right to be defended by a lawyer but also of the right...
Actually the Ogpu was not abolished but Dictator Stalin deftly changed its spots, leaving its skin much the same. In most European countries the State police is under the Minister of Interior. Last week Comrade Genrikh Grigorevitch Yagoda, Chief of the Ogpu, was transferred to the newly created Soviet portfolio of Commissar of Interior. He took with him the Ogpu staff, somewhat reduced. Censorship blurred details of the spot-changing, but the official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") significantly informed Russians that "formation of the Commissariat of Interior does not mean that the campaign against traitors to the Soviet Fatherland and against...
...Yagoda's power seemed to be in transferring to Soviet courts the Ogpu's right to pronounce sentence of Death. Hereafter all grave cases are to come up before Bolshevik courts-martial, noted for their readiness to inflict the supreme penalty. In his new post as Commissar, Genrikh Yagoda can by fiat sentence any Russian to exile in Siberia or elsewhere, or to imprisonment for up to five years. Since it is unusual for a prisoner to live as long as five years in certain notorious Soviet prisons, notably that of Solovetskii in the White Sea, most Moscovites...