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Article: BIOGRAPHY SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE ON THE MAN WHO UNLEASHED STALIN'S TERROR
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- August 10, 2008
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Stalin's Iron Fist: The Times
and Life of N. I. Yezhov
BY J. ARCH GETTY & OLEG V. NAUMOV
YALE pounds 25 320 pp
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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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