Talk:Genrikh Yagoda

message: I changed the wording of this to simply "legend" because the legend has ideological content, such that I and many others won't really find it "beautiful".  I'm open to some other wording, but "very beautiful" adds an explicitly religious/theist POV. 66.195.208.54 06:21, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "very beautiful legend" 

message: The last section is pretty unreadable due to too many of these things clogging it up. One or two after a few questionable statements is okay but not after every other word! It may be well meaning but frankly it makes the article unreadable, rather useless as an encyclopedic article and it looks a stereotyped joke of wikipedia at its worst. Its not enough that you care to stick one or two in the article on statements that you find questionable, you ought to try fix it before doing so. Peppering the whole article with that template borders upon well meaning "vandalism". I'm going to take out all of them and replace it with one Template:Refimprove box. Eqdoktor (talk) 19:48, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many (citation needed) in article. 

message: I made a considerable revision of this article on the 4th Apr. 2014, and now find it to be reverted to it's original state. My writing made several important corrections and additions to various parts of Yagoda's life and contained all the necessary citations. Since no reason for this reversion has been given I'm going to re-implement my edition.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.246.118.227 (talk) 10:23, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision 

message: more than 1% of his victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine were Jews, which means he was responsible for at least 100,000 murdered Jews in Ukraine.  He may have been a Jew, but he certainly wasn't killing people in the name of Jews.  He was a Soviet, a Stalinist, and acted on these allegiances alone.
: So what ? Adolf H. also murdered Austrians, too. As an Austrian, German, rom.kath. Christian, national socialist, socialist and as a murder.
: You "practise theory", dear Friend.
: Yagoda was a Jew and was a so called communist and a real mass-murder. And a very, very bad (Jewish) man/beast.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:AD21:1E00:D1DB:3B33:7028:6A27 (talk) 18:40, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  He also murdered Jews 

message: User:Lute88, I'm not sure why you removed the long standing text? You don't do that per WP guidelines, without starting a discussion first and build a consensus. All I did was move the Holodomor paragraph from the Early Life section to NKVD Chief where it was more appropriate. Also, you falsely claim that there was no source provided to back up the claim, that's wrong also, here is what the source states: 
::Among these monstrous crimes, Ukraine stands out as the worst in terms of numbers. Stalin declared war on his own people in 1932, sending Commissars V. Molotov and Lazar Kaganovitch and NKVD secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda to crush the resistance of Ukrainian farmers to forced collectivization. Ukraine was sealed off. All food supplies and livestock were confiscated. NKVD death squads executed "anti-party elements."
I will go ahead and re-add the text you removed as your method and reasoning was inappropriate in this situation, --E-960 (talk) 10:19, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The given source says nothing about GY Holodomor involvement. The source is also poorly written, unencyclopedic, unacademic, WP:RS.--Lute88 (talk) 11:37, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: STOP edit warring, and making false statements. The article is not poorly written as you claim it was written by ERIC MARGOLIS a Contributing Foreign Editor of the Toronto Sun newspaper. Also, here are more source that directly implicate Yagoda for the events in question, a book: Rafał Lemkin - Holodmor: The Ukrainian Genocide , and the website for a Ukrainian human rights organization the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, were it lists the perpetrator of the crime and include Yagoda here: . --E-960 (talk) 13:00, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed long standing text 

message: What are "pornographic pipes"? — Ineuw talk 03:26, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most importantly 

message: :I don't think that a oneliner deserves a separate subsection.
:The references should be corrected.Xx236 (talk) 09:55, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I merged this. My very best wishes (talk) 00:49, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holdomor subsection 

message: It was discovered that Yagoda's two Moscow apartments and his dacha contained ... 165 pornographic pipes....
:Like Ineuw I wondered what a "pornographic pipe" could be. Perhaps a parenthetical explanation should be added. Or text changed to "pornographically carved pipes." Sca (talk) 14:41, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Pornographic pipe'

message: Dear Participants,
I have removed two images: 
1)1930 jagoda.jpg
I do not think that it is authentic. The source of the image is not indicated. To establish the date and the authenticity for the images from the earlier USSR is important.
2) 1922 exit visa hand signed by Genrikh Yagoda.jpg
I do not think there is any value in having this image on the page.
If disagree please voice your objections.--Armenius vambery (talk) 14:12, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed two images 

message: Dear Participants, propose to remove this image since questions in regards to its authenticity. The source is indicated as antique shop which do not allow to establish the date the image was created as well as verify who is pictured.--Armenius vambery (talk) 16:09, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The image is inserted back, the same questions about the reliability of the source and the idea to sell the image.--Armenius vambery (talk) 03:28, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  image Genrikh Yagoda and Ida Averbakh 1922 

message: Removed part of the quotation with the dramatic flash behind a "musoline curtain" and the "outline of a pibe".
I guess few people have actually READ Archipelag GULAG, but in the book, in a section immediately following the anecdote, Solzhenitsyn makes it clear that this anecdote couldn't possibly have happened, since there are no musoline curtains or visitors galleries on the second floor.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.38.143.54 (talk) 14:31, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed misleading Solzhenitsyn anecdote. 

message: In this article it says that Yagoda's assistants poisoned Menzhinsky to death over two weeks, but in Menzhinsky's article, it says Vyacheslav Menzhinsky died from natural causes, but that at the Trial of the Twenty-One, Yagoda confessed under duress that he had poisoned Menzhinsky. To me both possibilities seem plausible.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.124.145.85 (talk) 17:49, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poisoning Menzhinsky 

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message: In the lead, it is said that "12,000–25,000 laborers died", but in the text it is never specified what is the source for this information. It would be beneficial for the reader if he could know what the source of this information is in the text, perhaps also with a description of the living conditions that led to these many deaths. Seekallknowledge (talk) 14:36, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for death toll? 

message: How many deaths is Yagoda considered to be responsible for, and why is this information not explicitly listed in the Lede, like it would for any other mass murderer?107.195.106.201 (talk) 14:23, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Body Count? 

message: Not jeweller. His father was printer.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:AD21:1E00:D1DB:3B33:7028:6A27 (talk) 18:22, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  father