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Also Known As Genrikh Grigoryevich Jagoda
Born 1891 • Łódź • Poland
Died March 15, 1938 (aged 47) • Moscow • Russia
Political Affiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Role In Great Purge
Lavrenty Beria
Lavrenty Beria
Soviet government official
Nikolay Ivanovich Yezhov
Soviet official
Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov
prime minister of Soviet Union
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich.
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich
Soviet official
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
premier of Soviet Union
Andrey Vyshinsky
Andrey Vyshinsky
Soviet statesman
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
premier of Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
president of Soviet Union
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
president of Russia
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Zhukov
Soviet marshal
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
Russian revolutionary
Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin
premier of Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Molotov
foreign minister of Soviet Union
Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev
Soviet government official
Nikolay Bukharin
Nikolay Bukharin
Soviet political leader
Karl Radek.
Karl Radek
Soviet official
Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov
Soviet statesman
Andrei Gromyko
Andrei Gromyko
president of Soviet Union