A question for all of you: we all know of Stalin’s infamous purges. This question concerns the period of 1937-38, also known as The Great Terror of 1937-38 where some 1.5 million people were killed in a span of 15 months.
Can anybody name the person who actually implemented this order with great gusto?
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On 12.08.04 Nitin says:
Nikolai Yezhov
On 12.08.04 Niraj says:
And Laventi Beria
On 12.09.04 Sandeep says:
Nitin,
Right on spot!
More than Beria, it was Ezhov who was also known as the “bloody short murderer” (crude translation; he got his name because of his height), who performed beyond the call of his duty 
On 12.10.04 Nitin says:
Do you who in 1972 led a detachment of ‘mercenaries’ that, along with Jordanian troops, killed (according to Israeli General Moshe Dayan) ‘more Palestinians in eleven days than Israel could kill in twenty years’? This was called the Palestinians’ Black September.