Word: yezhov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which sucked millions of innocent people into the camps. He admits that it was only by accident that he was not hired by the secret police when their recruiters came to the university. "I was a fully qualified executioner," he writes. "If I had gotten into NKVD school under Yezhov,* maybe I would have matured just in time to serve Beria...
...Nikolai Yezhov, head of the secret police from 1936 to 1938; he was replaced by Lavrenty Beria...