Genrikh Yagoda
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Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin,
Yagoda in 1936
Yagoda on a police information card from 1912
Yagoda, Menzhinsky, Dzerzhinsky, 1920
Yagoda and his wife Ida Averbakh, deputy prosecutor of Moscow, 30 September 1922
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
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Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who served as chairman of the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union, from 1926 to 1934.
Genrikh Yagoda
…1924, Yagoda became the deputy chief of the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), and within a few years the real head of the OGPU as the chairman Vyacheslav Menzhinsky had little authority by the late 1920s because of his serious prolonged illness. In 1924, Yagoda joined the USSR's head of government, Alexei Rykov…
Menzhinsky in 1926
Menzhinsky with his sisters
Menzhinsky, 1899
Menzhinsky sometime in the 1880s