Yagoda and the Trotsky Trials

Yagoda was a pioneer in realizing you could use slave labor from gulogs to help build russian infa structure. He had always doubted the existence of a grand, coordinated conspiracy surrounding trotsky and suggested they maybe not go forward with any more show trials because it would be bad for publicity on the world stage. Yagoda has obviously proved to the task of exposing the trotskyite zenoviite block. The very next day, yagoda was demoted to a minor post in the government,. nikolay yjof was named people's commissar for internal affairs. Now under zo's direction, a second moscow trial was staged in january 19