Stalin hesitated for almost two weeks in May-June 1937 before giving the NKVD the go ahead for the purge of the top Red Army leadership. His response to the growing evidence provided by Nicolai Yezhov ...

the OGPU (later the NKVD), from the 1920s on. The second part of the book focuses on Vavilov's fall from Josef Stalin's favor, which eventually led to Vavilov's arrest, and the rise of Trofim ...

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

In it, Bolton compared Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, who was head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, under Stalin. “Trump has nominated Kash Patel ...

Stalin and Hitler signed a German-Soviet Non ... They opened the door in a daze to see soldiers NKVD barking orders to leave. The cold, the fear, scrabbling to pack as much as they could then ...