Word: yezhov
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...celebration last week of the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Secret Political Police showed further how the State ruled by Stalin has "come of age" (see col. 3). The power of the Political Police is now so ripe that their Commissar Nikolai Yezhov was able to celebrate by announcing on the dread anniversary that eight prominent Old Bolsheviks had been tried in secret, condemned to death for "treason" and secretly executed before the Soviet press was permitted to divulge even that a trial was proceeding...
...contain not only the voter's name signed or printed but also such expressions as "I would give my life for Stalin, let alone my vote!" Also thousands had brought with them to the polls little notes of praise addressed to Dictator Stalin and to Secret Police Chief Yezhov and had slipped them into the envelopes in which they cast their ballots...
...eleven most favored colleagues. From Leningrad to Vladivostok, from Samarkand to the Polar Cap this list of favorite candidates was repeated, in many cases in the following order: Premier Molotov; Heavy Industry Commissar Kaganovich; Defense Commissar Voroshilov; President Kalinin; Communist Party Central Committee Secretary Andreyev; Interior (Secret Police) Commissar Yezhov; Finance Commissar Chubar; Communist Party Central Executive Member Kosior; Leningrad Communist Leader Zhdanov; Vice Premier & Supply Commissar Mikoyan; President of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic Petrovsky; and Candidate x, locally prominent...
...still with picks and shovels, the State did not say. Most of Russia's 55,000 redeemed sinners sweated under Ogpu Chief Genrikh Yagoda who later sinned himself, and last week Yagoda was in the purgatory managed by his successor, Commissar for Internal Affairs Nikolai I. Yezhov...
Amid cheers Comrade Yezhov presented to officials of the Soviet of Moscow the newly completed Moscow-Volga Canal. Some of the sinners redeemed last week had worked also on the Baltic-White Sea Canal (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). When Stalin's great system of convict-dug waterways is completed, it will be possible for a river steamer to go from Moscow to any of five seas bordering Russia-the Caspian, Black, Azov, White and Baltic...