Word: semyon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persecution. It was he who deposed and then arrested the former Deputy Minister of State Security -a man named Ryumin-as "a secret enemy of our state" who had attempted to kindle in the Soviet people "feelings of national hostility" (i.e., anti-Semitism). But the principal fall guy is Semyon D. Ignatiev, Stalin's last Minister of State Security, and a bureaucrat who was elevated shortly after Stalin's death to one of the five secretariat seats on the party's powerful Central Committee. "How could it happen," demanded Pravda, "that in the depths of the Ministry...