Some historians agree that Stalin was a mere figurehead, that it was Lazar Kaganovich (the ✡️ head of the CHEKA, and the brother of Stalin’s ✡️ wife) who was really in charge.Lazar Kaganovich(Kogan) – Soviet secret police (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD), chief of the Gulag, mass murderer for Stalin and architect of the holodomor. He's responsible for the deaths of millions and the wholesale destruction of Christian monuments and churches, including the great Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Standing amid the rubble of the cathedral, Kaganovich proclaimed, "Mother Russia is cast down. Beloud