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Russia / Soviet Union: Josef Stalin walking with Vyacheslav Molotov (left) and Nikolai Yezhov (right), Moscow,1937

Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, was arrested and executed in 1938 as an 'enemy of the people'. In 1940 Yezhov was shot in an execution chamber with a sloping floor, which was for hosing and had been built according to Yezhov's own specifications near the Lubyanka. After his execution, Yezhov was painstakingly removed from this image, earning him the posthumous nickname 'the Vanishing Commissar'.
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Title:
Russia / Soviet Union: Josef Stalin walking with Vyacheslav Molotov (left) and Nikolai Yezhov (right), Moscow,1937
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Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, was arrested and executed in 1938 as an 'enemy of the people'. In 1940 Yezhov was shot in an execution chamber with a sloping floor, which was for hosing and had been built according to Yezhov's own specifications near the Lubyanka. After his execution, Yezhov was painstakingly removed from this image, earning him the posthumous nickname 'the Vanishing Commissar'.
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5100 x 3118 px | 45.5 MB
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43.2 x 26.4 cm | 17.0 x 10.4 in (300 dpi)
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