Page 207 VIWHY DID THEY CONFESS? Still, there has never been any explanation of
the mystery of Nikolaiev. At the last of the great "treason
trials," staged in March 1938, in which Yagoda figured as
one of the main "confessors," the matter of Nikolaiev's
first arrest and inexplicable release was brought out in open court.
But Prosecutor Vyshinsky cut Yagoda short every time the latter
tried to discuss it. "It was not like that," Yagoda observed
several times when Vyshinsky purported to quote from the secret
confession of Yagoda himself. No reference was made to Stalin's
part in the investigation. No explanation has ever been given why
Stalin was satisfied with the strange action of Medved and Zaporozhets
in releasing Nikolaiev when seized with a revolver and a political
diary. |
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