Inside of Joseph's Stalin's Soviet Union, the NKVD were a notorious secret police who were responsible for the executions and deaths of hundreds of thousands. One of the most shocking events in Stalin's time as the leader, was the Great Purge in which its estimated between 700,000 to 1,100,000 people were executed. The man who organised the NKVD to carry out this purge was its Chief, Nikolay Yezhov. He had risen from humble beginnings, to become the most feared person inside of the Soviet Union behind Stalin himself.
Yezhov was responsible for the imprisonment in the Gulags of hundreds of thousands, and also it was his police force that instilled horrific torture of the Soviet people who were suspected of dissenting against Stalin and the Communist Party. Anyone who was accused of speaking against Stalin's leadership was treated terribly, being sacked from their jobs, tortured and even executed by firing squads. It was Yezhov who was responsible for the mass murder of over 1 million people, but like many inside of Stalin's government, he too fell from grace incredibly sharply. Stalin realised how powerful he was, and he began to prefer Lavrentiy Beria's efficiency with leading the NKVD, and Beria and Stalin plotted Yezhov's downfall.
He was accused of being an enemy of the people, and Yezhov admitted a number of charges under torture. He was eventually sentenced to death, but his execution was carried out in utmost secrecy. It's believed that deadly executioner Vasily Blohkin shot Yezhov in a tiny execution cell inside an NKVD station in Moscow. After his death, Stalin sought to erase him from history, and he became known as the 'vanishing commissar.'
So join us today as we look at, 'The BRUTAL Execution OF Nikolay Yezhov Stalin's Great Purger.'
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