1940. The execution of Nikolai Yezhov
75 years ago, on February 4, 1940, in the building of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, the death sentence was executed by the former People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, the General Commissioner of State Security Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov. At the trial, he said: "I cleaned 14,000 Chekists, but my huge fault is that I cleaned them little." Yezhov asked: "Shoot me calmly, without torment ...