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[[File: The Commissar Vanishes 2.jpg|thumbnail|right|220px|Nikolai Yezhov walking with [[Joseph Stalin]] in the top photo taken in the mid 1930s. Subsequent to his execution in 1940, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet Union censors.<ref>[http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishes.htm The Commissar Vanishes]</ref>]]

[[File: The Commissar Vanishes 2.jpg|thumbnail|right|220px|Nikolai Yezhov walking with [[Joseph Stalin]] in the top photo taken in the mid 1930s. Subsequent to his execution in 1940, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet Union censors.<ref>[http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishes.htm The Commissar Vanishes]</ref>]]

'''Nikolai Yezhov''' (in ''rus''. Ежов, Николай Иванович) was a sodomite alias [[Sexual disorientation|sexually disoriented]] person who, as chief of the [[NKVD]], killed for [[Stalin]]. He assisted in getting rid of his predecessor, [[Genrikh Yagoda]], who was executed on March 15, 1938, and he himself was executed in 1940 during purges performed by [[Lavrenty Beria]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him |author=Donald Rayfield |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |year=2007 |isbn=9780307431837 |pages=229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yi3ow3TU8-4C&source=gbs_navlinks_s |quote=He was alone except for a few old companions with whom he could seek solace in vodka and sodomy.}}</ref>  

'''Nikolai Yezhov''' (alt. '''Ezhov''', in ''rus''. Ежов, Николай Иванович) was a sodomite alias [[Sexual disorientation|sexually disoriented]] person who, as chief of the [[NKVD]], killed for [[Stalin]]. He assisted in getting rid of his predecessor, [[Genrikh Yagoda]], who was executed on March 15, 1938, and he himself was executed in 1940 during purges performed by [[Lavrenty Beria]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him |author=Donald Rayfield |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |year=2007 |isbn=9780307431837 |pages=229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yi3ow3TU8-4C&source=gbs_navlinks_s |quote=He was alone except for a few old companions with whom he could seek solace in vodka and sodomy.}}</ref> The era of Yezhov that ravaged the military as well, leading to the execution or incarceration of about half the entire military officer corps, was termed a ''"Yezhov bloodbath"'' or simply "''Yezhovshchina''".

 

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