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Genrikh Yagoda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Due to Menzhinsky's serious illness, Yagoda was in effective control of the secret police in the late 1920s. |
 | | On July 10, 1934, two months after Menzhinsky's death, Yagoda was appointed People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, a position which included oversight of regular as well as secret police, by Joseph Stalin. |
 | | He may have been involved, on Stalin's orders, with the murder of his superior Menzhinsky, whom he was later accused of poisoning, and Sergei Kirov, who was assassinated in December 1934. |
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