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A man variously known as the \u201cIron Hedgehog\u201d and a \u201cmalignant Dwarf\u201d, but also as charming, courteous, and, most importantly \u201ca good party man,\u201d a man who held the position of the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs - the head of the NKVD during Stalin\u2019s Great Purge - Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov.\n----more----\nLike our show? Support us, buy cute shirts, and check out past episodes at www.badgayspod.com/\n\nDeutscher, Isaac. The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1929-1940. London: Verso, 2003.\n\xa0\n"Gay in the Gulag."\xa0Libcom.\xa0https://libcom.org/history/gay-gulag\n\xa0\nGetty, J. Arch, and Oleg V. Naumov. The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.\n\xa0\nGetty, John Arch, and Oleg V. Naumov. Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin\u2019s \u201cIron Fist.\u201d New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.\n\xa0\nLewin, Moshe. The Soviet Century. London: Verso, 2005.\n\xa0\nMontefiore, Simon Sebag. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. London: Hachette UK, 2010.\xa0\n\xa0\nWeston, Fred. "From Emancipation to Criminalization: Stalinist Persecution of Homosexuals from 1934."\xa0https://www.marxist.com/from-emancipation-to-criminalisation-stalinist-persecution-of-homosexuals-from-1934.htm\n\xa0\nWhyte, Harry. Letter to Joseph Stalin, May 1934.\xa0https://www.marxist.com/letter-to-stalin-can-a-homosexual-be-in-the-communist-party.htm\n\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.