Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later executed during the Mos
Tukhachevsky, c. 1935
The Tukhachevsky family in 1904
Tukhachevsky in 1920
Polish soldiers displaying captured Soviet battle flags after the Battle of Warsaw in 1920
Nikolai Yezhov
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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
…Tukhachevsky of treason, and after he confessed during torture, he was executed in 1937 during the military purges of 1936–1938, led by Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov. Tukhachevsky was born at Alexandrovskoye, Safonovsky District (in the present-day Smolensk Oblast of Russia), into a family of impoverished hereditary…
Yezhov in 1938
The Gulag newspaper, Perekovka ("Reforging"), front page announcing the replacement of Genrikh Yagoda by Nikolai Yezhov
Yezhov's wife Yevgenia with their adopted daughter Natalia