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Yan Karlovich Berzin

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644: 155: 27: 135:, credited with devising the system of taking and shooting hostages to recover deserters, and to put down peasant rebellions in areas controlled by the Red Army. He was recognized by his superiors for his work in pursuing, arresting, and liquidating Russian sailors after the Bolshevik suppression of the 112:, and was wounded, caught, and sentenced to death. His sentence was commuted because of his youth; after two years in prison, he was deported to Siberia, but escaped. Rearrested and sent back into exile in 1911, he escaped in 1914, and was a private in the Russian army until he deserted in 1916. 736: 172:. In November, he transferred to Valencia. On 8 June 1937, he was recalled to Moscow and was reappointed to his old post as head of military intelligence on 8 June 1937, after his successor 781: 756: 786: 771: 761: 364: 766: 721: 776: 796: 791: 486: 97: 348: 311: 573: 436: 801: 726: 216: 414: 123:, rising to the rank of general and chief of the Latvian Red Army. From December 1917, he operated in the apparatus of the 185: 58: 464: 377:
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He was dismissed in 1935, and served for a year in the Far East. In September 1936, he was sent to Madrid, under the
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had come under suspicion, but on 1 August 1937, he too was dismissed, and was succeeded by
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FBI Report, "Owen Lattimore, Internal Security - R, Espionage - R," September 8, 1949 (
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Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940
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agents that Berzin informed him prior to Barmine's 1937 defection that
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Grishin, as chief military adviser to the Republican side in the
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Photo of Berzin after his arrest by the NKVD in 1937
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Yan Antonovich Berzin

Russian
Latvian
O.S.
Kreis Riga
Zaube parish
Russian Empire
Moscow
USSR
Soviet
communist
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Walter Krivitsky
Latvia
1905 Revolution
Bolsheviks
Russian Revolution
Cheka
Lenin
Red Terror
Kronstadt rebellion
Red Army
GRU
Richard Sorge

nom de guerre
Spanish Civil War
Semyon Uritsky
A.M. Nikonov

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