Article: BIOGRAPHY SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE ON THE MAN WHO UNLEASHED STALIN'S TERROR

Stalin's Iron Fist: The Times

and Life of N. I. Yezhov

BY J. ARCH GETTY & OLEG V. NAUMOV

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'We should shoot a pretty large number,' wrote Nikolai Yezhov to his master Stalin as he unleashed the Great Terror in 1937. 'Personally I think it must be done in order to finally finish with this filth. It is understood that no trials are necessary. Everything can be done in a simplified process.' And so it turned out.

Yezhov - Stalin's 'Iron Fist', also known as the 'Bloody Dwarf' - was the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, boss of the vast secret police, the NKVD, and the second most powerful man in Russia after Stalin ...

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