Nikolai Yezhov and Soviet special services. Sokolov B.

Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (1895-1940)-Soviet state and politician. The People’s Commissar of the Interior of the USSR, the General Commissioner of State Security.

with his name is connected by one of the worst pages in Russian history - “Big Terror”. In this post, Yezhov was engaged in coordination and implementation of repressions against persons suspected of anti -Soviet activities, espionage, “cleaning” in the party, mass arrests and expulsions on social, organizational, and then a national basis. These campaigns have been systematic in the summer of 1937, they were preceded by preparatory repressions in the state security bodies themselves, which “cleaned” the employees of the former People's Commissar of Internal Affairs G. G. G. Berry. During this period, extrajudicial repressive organs were extremely widely used - the so -called. “Special meetings” and “Troika of the NKVD”. The determination of the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 1998 states that as a result of operations carried out by the NKVD employees in accordance with the orders of Yezhov, only in 1937-1938. More than 1.5 million citizens were subjected to repression, of which about half were shot.

about the life and activities of N. I. Yezhov at the head of the Soviet special services, the next book of the series tells.