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Genrikh Yagoda rose from revolutionary activist to head of Stalin’s feared secret police, overseeing mass arrests, brutal interrogations, and the expansion of the Gulag. He built grand projects with forced labor but ultimately fell victim to the same terror he enforced. Arrested, humiliated, and executed in 1938, his story is a chilling reminder that in Stalin’s Soviet Union, no one was safe.
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