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'''Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky''' (Russian: Вячесла́в Рудо́льфович Менжи́нский, Polish: ''Wiaczesław Mężyński''; 19 August 1874 - 10 May 1934) was a Polish-Russian revolutionary, a Soviet statesman and Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934. He was fluent in over 10 languages (including Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Persian, the last one learned especially in order to read works by Omar Khayyám). | '''Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky''' (Russian: Вячесла́в Рудо́льфович Менжи́нский, Polish: ''Wiaczesław Mężyński''; 19 August 1874 - 10 May 1934) was a Polish-Russian revolutionary, a Soviet statesman and Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934. He was fluent in over 10 languages (including Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Persian, the last one learned especially in order to read works by Omar Khayyám). | ||
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Menzhinsky died of natural causes in 1934. When his successor, Yagoda, made his public confession under duress at the Moscow Trial of the Twenty One in 1938, Yagoda stated that he had poisoned Menzhinsky. | Menzhinsky died of natural causes in 1934. When his successor, Yagoda, made his public confession under duress at the Moscow Trial of the Twenty One in 1938, Yagoda stated that he had poisoned Menzhinsky. | ||
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