Word: yezhov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet water transport is not going well, Water Transport Commissar Nikolai Pakhomov was ousted last week and his commissariat turned over to Secret Political Police Chief Nikolai Yezhov, who is very close to Dictator Stalin. Since most of Russia's new canals have been dug by forced labor under Yezhov, he is the logical choice...
...word in Moscow for several months has been "Watch 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...
...poison in dealing with political opponents of Stalin, particularly in Asia, and revelations at the trial last week disclosed that the OGPU had a poison laboratory. It was at the disposal of former OGPU Chief Yagoda, sentenced to death, presumably is at the disposal of his successor, OGPU Chief Yezhov...
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...
...able than any other Russian to frame someone else with an assassination. He is scheduled to confess this week that he succeeded in forcing the official Kremlin physicians, who care for Stalin's health, to cause the deaths of other Bolsheviks. One of these might have been Nikolai Yezhov, 42, today the secret police chief under whom the present trial was prepared. Yezhov, it appeared, had suffered from "slow poisoning" and would certainly have died had not the plot against him been discovered...