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| style="padding:15px;" |[...we know that you told V. about your passion for homosexuality since childhood and that men could completely replace women for you. You should write in detailed when you became a homosexual and with whom you then became involved in this filthy business…]

| style="padding:15px;" |[...we know that you told V. about your passion for homosexuality since childhood and that men could completely replace women for you. You should write in detailed when you became a homosexual and with whom you then became involved in this filthy business…]

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| style="padding:15px;" |''«At about the age of 15 or 16 years I had a few instances of perverse sexual acts with other apprentices of my own age of the same tailor shop. ... This vice renewed itself in the old [[Tsar]]ist army in frontline conditions. Aside from one chance contact with one of the solders of our company I had relations with a certain Filatov, my friend from [[Leningrad]] with whom we served in the same regiment. Our relations were "mutual", that is the "female" part was played first by one side, then by the other. ... On several occasions in 1924 I had homosexual relations with [my old friend Dement’ev] in which only I played the active role. [Yezhov apparently means Dement’ev played the "female" role.]»''<div style="padding-left:40px;">&mdash; [[Stalin]]'s hangman Nikolai Yezhov<ref name="PetrovIansen">{{cite web |title=Interrogations of Nikolai Ezhov, former People's Commissar for Internal Affairs. |chapter=Ezhov interrogation 04.23.39 (04.24.39) |url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/ezhovinterrogs.html |quote=Pavliukov – no sign this confession was forced, or even asked about this (522).

| style="padding:15px;" |''«At about the age of 15 or 16 years I had a few instances of perverse sexual acts with other apprentices of my own age of the same tailor shop. ... This vice renewed itself in the old [[Tsar]]ist army in frontline conditions. Aside from one chance contact with one of the solders of our company I had relations with a certain Filatov, my friend from [[Leningrad]] with whom we served in the same regiment. Our relations were "mutual", that is the "female" part was played first by one side, then by the other. ... On several occasions in 1924 I had homosexual relations with [my old friend Dement’ev] in which only I played the active role. [Yezhov apparently means Dement’ev played the "female" role.]»''<div style="padding-left:40px;">&mdash; [[Stalin]]'s hangman [[Nikolai Yezhov]]<ref name="PetrovIansen">{{cite web |title=Interrogations of Nikolai Ezhov, former People's Commissar for Internal Affairs. |chapter=Ezhov interrogation 04.23.39 (04.24.39) |url=https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/ezhovinterrogs.html |quote=Pavliukov – no sign this confession was forced, or even asked about this (522).

Petrov & Iansen, 365-6:

Petrov & Iansen, 365-6:

"I think it essential that I inform the investigation of a series of new facts concerning my moral-personal dissoluteness. I mean my longtime vice of homosexuality.

"I think it essential that I inform the investigation of a series of new facts concerning my moral-personal dissoluteness. I mean my longtime vice of homosexuality.