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Order

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1917- Establishment of Cheka
1921-22 Red Terror
1934- OGPU becomes NKVD as it merges with the Interior Ministry

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Yagoda

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  • Came in 1934
  • Extensive use of gulags as not only places to re-educate religious opponents but to support industrial plans in places where no one would go
  • White Sea Channel; 10,000 lives and useless as it only was 3,5m deep
  • During Great Purge he was ordered to deal with Trotskyists in the governement. Eventually someone named him
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Yezhov

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  • The bloody dwarf
  • Quotas on executions in labour camps
  • Loads of spies, under-cover plain clothes police officers in public
  • At some he was processing 230 prisoners a day
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Beria

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  • Put an end to the excessive behaviours (waste of manpower) of secret police. Trials and arrests only held when evidence found.
  • Gulag made productive (Better food rationing, 1K experts sent including Tupolev, output 1937 2M rubles- 1940 4,5M rubles)
  • Murder of Trostky in Mexico