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Nikolai Yezhov

Born on May 1, 1895

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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Николай Иванович Ежов, IPA:; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940), also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge.

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