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The Great Terror - Hoover Institution

for the excesses of the Great Terror, Stalin fi red him in November of 1938. Ezhov was executed the night of February 2, 1940. According to an o"cial witness: “He started to hiccup, weep, and when he was conveyed to ‘the place,’ they had to drag him by the hands along the

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