Stalin in 1936, a photograph taken at the time when he gave Yagoda, his chief of Secret Police, a free hand to arrest anyone suspected of “anti-Stalin intrigue”. Within a year Yagoda himself had been executed and the Great Purge, which claimed millions of Russian lives, was under way.
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49Stalin in 1936, a photograph taken at the time when he gave Yagoda, his chief of Secret Police, a free hand to arrest anyone suspected of “anti-Stalin intrigue”. Within a year Yagoda himself had been executed and the Great Purge, which claimed millions of Russian lives, was under way. Press, 16 January 1982, Page 13
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