Word: yagoda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Least ominous explanation of the change is Comrade Yezhov's "ill health." He is known to be suffering from tuberculosis, overwork, and possibly from poisoning, if the fantastic accusation that his predecessor, Henry Yagoda, sprayed the executive office in the Commissariat for Internal Affairs with atomized mercuric poison be true. Comrade Yezhov will continue to be Commissar for Water Transportation, secretary to the Central Committee of the Communist Party and a member of the Politburo...
...Kosior, he's gaining on Yezhov!" Yezhov, who is the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union as head of the Secret Political Police, won his power by persuading Stalin that the Dictator's life was being menaced by Russia's former Secret Police Chief Yagoda, recently executed (TIME, March 28). The quickest, most dangerous way to climb in Russia is by persuading the Dictator that a new set of his most trusted henchmen have just turned against him, and recently there have been signs that ambitious Soviet Vice Premier Kosior was busy along this same...
...Yagoda, according to various testimony, attempted to poison Yezhov by having his own office, which his successor would occupy, sprayed with an atomized mercuric poison. Recent analysis of the urine of Yezhov was said to have proved that the poison has been partially effective and his health gravely affected...
...other cases Yagoda was testified to have used the OGPU's power to force eminent Soviet physicians to put such Big Bolsheviks as Novelist Gorki quietly out of the way. "In order to poison a man it is not absolutely necessary to use action poison," testified the Kremlin Hospital's chief, Dr. Leon G. Levin, about to be executed. "The simplest medicine, if used at the wrong time and in the wrong doses, will serve as poison...
...Rykov, Bukharin, former Chief of Ogpu Yagoda, Finance Commissar Grinko, former President of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Khodzhaev, former All-Union Foreign Trade Commissar Rozengolts, former All-Union Agriculture Commissar Chernov, former All-Union Timber Chief Ivanov, former All-Union Cooperative Stores Chief Zelensky, former All-Union First Assistant Foreign Commissar Krestinsky, former Kremlin Hospital Chief Dr. Levin, Endocrinologist Dr. Kazakov, the late Maxim Gorki's secretary Kruchkov, and the lesser Communists Ikramov, Sharangovich, Zubarev, Bulanov and Maximov-Dikovsky...