Word: yagoda
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Yagoda.The second ranking official of the G. P. U. is Comrade Yagoda. He is supposed to be "Stalin's man in the G. P. U." and also to direct a sort of private espionage service in the sole interest of the Dictator...
Unlike the celibate and sour Menzhinsky, Yagoda is married, happily it is said. About one quarter of the G. P. U. staff in Moscow are women. They are on the whole, more cheerful than the men, upon some of whom the strain of ceaseless office intrigue appears to have told grievously...