Stalin's Executioner Who Killed 750,000 People Got the Ultimate Karma

追加: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]In 1936, Stalin chose a 5-ft tall man to lead his secret police. Within 2 years, Nikolai Yezhov would become history's most efficient mass murderer. Yezhov didn't just order executions. He watched them happen. He kept detailed records of every torture session, sleep deprivation, beatings. 750,000 people died under his watch. He called it cleansing the Soviet Union. But Stalin's executioners never lasted long. As the Great Purge reached its peak, Yezhov noticed something terrifying. His own agents were being arrested. His closest allies were disappearing. [music] Then his protege, Lavrentiy Beria, was promoted above him. Yezhov knew what was coming.

[00:00:39]>> [music] >> In 1938, Beria's men dragged Yezhov from his office. The hunter had become the hunted. From his prison cell, Yezhov wrote desperate letters to Stalin, begging for mercy, promising loyalty.

[00:00:51]Stalin never replied. They shot him in a basement, [music] then erased his name from every Soviet record. The man who liquidated 3/4 of a million people simply [music] ceased to exist. Even monsters fear the machine they serve.