Which Soviet leader was Yezhov closely associated with?
Lenin
Trotsky
Stalin
Khrushchev
Answer
Yezhov, the notorious head of the Soviet secret police during the Great Purge, was a close associate of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator. Yezhov zealously carried out Stalin's ruthless policies, executing millions of innocent citizens deemed as enemies of the state in a reign of terror that became known as the Yezhovshchina.
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