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"In 2006 Seve Plonker, an Israeli writer, published an article on Ynet News beseeching his readers not to forget that some of the greatest murderers of modem times were Jewish. Entitled 'Stalin's Jews', he specifically referred to Genrikh Yagoda, the founder of the NKVD, as having been "the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20 th Century." It was Yagoda, Plonker reminded, who "diligently implemented Stalin's collectivisation orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people." Many of the deputies who managed the Gulag System were ethnie Jews and their overrepresentation in membership of various incarnations of the secret police meant that during the 1930s, the NKVD was "one of the most Jewish of ail Soviet institutions." As the historian Leonard Shapiro once commented, "Anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka (Soviet secret police) stood a very good chance of finding himself confronted with and possibly shot by a Jewish investigator." Plonker, whose piece contained the allégation that "many Jews sold their soûl to the devil of the communist révolution and hâve blood on their hands for eternity" concluded thus: "Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of 'our hangmen,' who served the Red terror with loyalty and dedication from its establishment. After ail, others will always remind us of their origin." -Adeyinka Makinde 2013