Word: yagoda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...star prisoner last week was, however, no habitué of Moscow embassies. He was Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevich Yagoda, who, next to Dictator Stalin, was for many years the most dread official in the Soviet Union, the head of Stalin's Secret Political Police. Harold Denny of the New York Times wrote of what the 250 spectators in the courtroom saw as they studied the star prisoner last week...
...present trials for treason which are filling the newspapers stirred him to recall some of the figures whom he had known. Bukharin he described as a fanatic, but honest in his ideas in comparison with Yagoda. Furthermore he remembers Bukharin from the time when the latter was one of the Bolshevik leaders and he was the leader of the Popular party, as a cultured man, something which could not be said for Yagoda...
...They announced they were putting on trial this week 21 Communists, most of whom have held official positions close to Joseph Stalin, big shots of Stalin's own party and inner clique. In equivalent U. S. terms. Defendant Rykov would be Jack Garner; Defendant Grinko-Secretary Morgenthau; Defendant Yagoda-Attorney General Cummings; Defendant Chernov- Secretary Wallace; Defendant Khodjaiev -Governor Lehman; Defendant Rakovsky-Ambassador Bullitt; Defendant Bukharin-Hugh Johnson; Defendant Levin -Dr. Alexis Carrel. "Terrific!" was Walter Duranty's adjective after studying the official charges against the 21. Correspondent Joseph Barnes remarked that "some of the crimes alleged read...
...read out. How many more thousands died in the Soviet purgatory and how many are busy redeeming themselves in it still with picks and shovels, the State did not say. Most of Russia's 55,000 redeemed sinners sweated under Ogpu Chief Genrikh Yagoda who later sinned himself, and last week Yagoda was in the purgatory managed by his successor, Commissar for Internal Affairs Nikolai I. Yezhov...
Such goings on as these about Yagoda and Pashukanis last week did more than any rumors or inside stories could have done to disclose in the Stalin Dictatorship shakiness, uncertainty and jitters. Excitable Vishinsky's reasons were not hard to seek. In 1917 the Russian Revolution was against juridical and police tyranny by the Imperial Government...