Next to Stalin the most powerful man in Soviet Russia for the past two years has been Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Internal Affairs since September 1936. Comrade Yezhov is the man who in 1937 put on ...
Under the leadership of Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union’s internal security services were led by a People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs. Two of the most famous Commissars were Nikolai Yezhov and ...
As Soviet water transport is not going well, Water Transport Commissar Nikolai Pakhomov was ousted last week and his commissariat turned over to Secret Political Police Chief Nikolai Yezhov, who is ...