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Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD (died 1938)
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Genrikh Yagoda
Soviet secret police official (1891–1938)
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
NKVD
Secret police of the Soviet Union (1934–1946)
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) secret police organization, and thus had a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)