Execution of Nikolai Yezhov - Sadistic Head of Soviet Secret Police & Brutal Mass Murderer

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Nikolai Yezhov was born on 1 May 1895 in St. Petersburg, then part of the Russian Empire. Yezhov started climbing the Soviet bureaucracy ranks and by 1930, he was attending Politburo meetings, the executive committee of the Communist Party. Between 1919 and 1930 Yezhov was married to a minor Communist Party clerk Antonia Titova. In late 1930 he married his second wife Yevgenia Feigenburg, who was Jewish and 9 years his junior. She was a glamorous woman and they had an adopted daughter, Natasha, an orphan from a children's home. By the early 1930s Yezhov was a rising star within the Communist Party, and Stalin welcomed him into his inner circle. In 1934, Yezhov was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and the following year he became a secretary of the Central Committee. Yezhov was known for his loyalty to Stalin and his administrative skills. Stalin admired Yezhov’s hard work, once writing to him in August 1935, “When you say something, you always do it!” As a sign of affection, Stalin gave Yezhov a nickname: "my little blackberry."

There were no tears shed for Nikolai Yezhov.



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All Comments (18)
  • @user-gj5gb7fd6n
    This is what happens when the inmates takeover the asylum.
  • @user-pc9kk9ip4s
    There is an old saying: "The revolution eats its children! ".
  • @roaropgard8575
    What a sadistic police he was😰😰 I shed tears for the victims 😢😢
  • @renee1961
    Good late evening, World History. Thank You as ALWAYS for your videos.
  • @renee1961
    Your voice, and manner of speaking are my Favorite on YouTube. This is also My Favorite World History Channel.
  • @thegreat_I_am
    The guy with the huge mustache is Semyon Budyonny. When Stalin sent the executioners for him, Budyonny held them off at gun point. Afterwards he never mentioned it to Stalin, nor visa versa. Semyon Budyonny was the only pre-war Marshall of the Soviet Union to survive Stalin.
  • @dirkmolen9392
    As usual, a good video, but the guy at 6:41 is Mikhail Kalinin, not Lev Kamenev.
  • @drm9979
    currently reading the book “Stalin” and encountered this creep. it is frightening how evil completely took over the Russian Empire(USSR). at the same time, like with Hitler and his lieutenants, crazy how these people acted and socialized with each other in a manner like other humans. And they never once relented in their claim to be doing what they did for the good of the people. “The good of the people is always the alibi of tyrants.”. Albert Camus.. amazing footage and video commentary.
  • @hobartw9770
    Stalin towered over him prefering to look down.
  • @renee1961
    You also give the names and faces of Those that Fought for Them.
  • @freeman8128
    What a silly stilted distracting voice-over!