Trotsky, Litvinov [Maxim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Commissar, 1930-39], Kamenev, Zinoviev, Yagoda [Genrikh Yagoda, appointed by Stalin head of security police,executed 1938], Kaganovich [the only ...

To understand the echoes, it was necessary to recall the originals. On trial in Moscow in 1938 Genrikh Yagoda, hard-boiled head of the OGPU, said: “Citizen judges, I want to tell [you] how a man ...