25th November 1940: Nikolai Yezhov, former head of the Soviet secret police, executed in Moscow

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Under Yezhov's leadership the NKVD launched a campaign of arrests targeting party members, military officers, and civilians that saw widespread purges, forced confessions, and executions. Estimates of those killed range into the hundreds of ...

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