"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

of October 1937, when an especially large number of people were killed.
Perhaps the Chekists were celebrating something?
In the previous year (on the 30th of September 1936), the people's
commissary for internal affairs, Genrikh Yagoda (Hirsch Yehuda) had
been fired and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov. It was Kaganovich who
wanted to get rid of him. He was not efficient enough. Yagoda, who had
previously been a pharmacist, always carried his medicine case with him.
He liked to poison his victims personally in the cells of the Lubyanka.
Yagoda himself became one of the victims of the great terror. He was
arrested in 1937 and shot on May 15, 1938. Yagoda had been married to
Yakov Sverdlov's cousin. During this period, the NKVD was led by the
dcputy chiefs Matvei Berman and Mikhail Frinovsky.
Meanwhile, some of these gratuitous mass executions were directly
caused by the extremist Jews' purges against other Jews. A power struggle
was going on at the same time as terrible suffering was inflicted on the
Russian people. The officers of the NKVD began wearing a new symbol
on their sleeves during the great terror of 1934-38 - the sword and serpent.
This symbolised the struggle of the cabbalistic Jews against their enemies.
There is no devil according to the Talmud. Satan and God are united in
Yahweh.
Many leading functionaries perished in that power struggle: Zinoviev,
Kamenev, Smirnov, Pyatakov, Radek, Tomsky (Honigberg), Sokolnikov,
Rykov (who became head of government after Lenin's death), Krestinsky,
Bukharin... Stalin and Kaganovich were after their rivals' gold. Even Le-
nin's personal bank accounts were transferred to Moscow. Everyone in-
volved in that gold affair was liquidated in 1937. Stalin also wanted to lay
his hands on the Social Revolutionaries' gold. They had been robbing
banks in Russia and Europe for 15 years and had changed all the proceeds
into gold
Planned economy began to be applied also to the murdering.
Kaganovich had the first extermination plan drawn up in July 1937.
According to this plan the NKVD were to liquidate, during a four-month
period, 268 950 people, of whom 75 950 were to be killed immediately.
Kaganovich soon realised that the tempo was still too slow. Different
suggestions of how the number of killings could be increased were handed
in by local power-mongers to the Politburo, who accepted all these
suggestions. For instance, it allowed 48 000 more people to be destroyed
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