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...Stalin fortnight ago got after the long-time chief of his Secret Police, dread Genrikh Yagoda (TIME, April 12). Whether or not Yagoda was squealing confessions under pressure of Ogpu third degree last week, the State in its newsorgans suddenly foamed with rage about Yagoda, using "Russian words rarely encountered outside the Government decrees of the time of Peter the Great, causing general wonderment as to the nature of the crime," according to able Herald Tribune Moscow Correspondent Joseph Barnes...
...presently rumored in countries adjoining the Soviet Union last week that Dictator Stalin's hated onetime creature Yagoda had been arrested only upon demand of the Red Army in the person of its popular leader Marshal Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and Marshals Blucher, Yegorov, Tuckachevsky, and Budenny. Up to now the Ogpu has had its own troops, numbering some 240,000, and individually much better equipped than Red Army troops. As the Dictator's elite guards, these have rushed about Russia, here mercilessly mowing down a peasant revolt, there breaking a strike, next subduing a mutinous Red Army unit...
...Stalin gets results, and soon Moscow presses were saying that Yagoda never was his creature, that the Dictator never really liked him, long wanted to be rid of him. More and more lurid stories followed, with Comrade Yagoda swelling in horrid infamy until it appeared that Ogpu evenings under him resembled Roman Saturnalia. The picture of debauchery was made to look a trifle brighter by suggesting that the Ogpu Chief's most depraved carousing and seductions came toward the close of his public career when he realized that jail was but a few jumps ahead. Item: the State press...
Still later the Ogpu was given yet another name to make it seem more like a normal European Ministry of Interior, became the Commissariat of Interior, under the reigning Ogpu chief, smudge-mustached, pudgy-fingered Comrade Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevitch Yagoda. Moscow's official daily Pravda ("Truth") hailed the terrorist clique in its new role as Commissariat of Interior thus: "Long has the Ogpu worn a halo formed of the deep love of tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad!"* Last week Comrade Yagoda's Commissariat of Interior became the Commissariat General...
...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 to be accused...