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.
Menzhinsky in 1926
Menzhinsky with his sisters
Menzhinsky, 1899
Menzhinsky sometime in the 1880s
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,
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
…upon a couch in his office at the Lubyanka, but rarely interfered in the day-to-day operation of the GPU. Stalin tended to deal with his first deputy Genrikh Yagoda, who essentially took over as head of the organization in all but name beginning in the late 1920s. Menzhinsky died on 10 May 1934, at the age of 59…
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