|
 |
Nikolai
Ivanovich
Yezhov
Born in 1895, in Yezow, a Polish Jewish shetl (settlement).
|
|
His Father
Most likely, his father was a man named
Dawid Jezow.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 |
Yezhov Appeared Out Of Nowhere
The first records show him as as an accountant in 1927,
although his 'Official' biography says he was a Soviet Army
hero. In 1929, he was the Deputy of the People's Commissar for
Agriculture, and directed the Ukranian famine. He was also the
Chairman of the Central Commission for Party Control during the
period of the Great Purge.
|
| |
|
| |
|
Personal Life
Yezhov married a Jewish extremist terrorist named Evgeniya
Solomonovna Feigenberg (1904-1938), who was a daughter of Meier
Feigenberg.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
 |
Yezhov's Climb To Power
In 1934, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist
Party. In the next year, he became a Secretary of the Central
Committee.
|
|
|
|
In 1936, He Joined The NKVD Secret Police
He became People's Commissar for Internal Affairs ( NKVD). It is
estimated he orchestrated the deaths of between500,000 to 1,500,000 people,
by way of mass shootings.
|
|
| |
|
|
 |
Honored
At The Bolshoi
The apex of Yezhov's ascendancy was reached on December 20, 1937,
when the party hosted a giant gala to celebrate the 20th anniversary
of the NKVD at the Bolshoi Theater.
|
| |
|
|
