Vasiliy Ulrikh

Vasiliy Vasilievich Ulrikh (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич У́льрих; 13 July 1889 – 7 May 1951) was a senior judge of the Soviet Union during most of the regime of Joseph Stalin.

Because of their open involvement in revolutionary activity, the entire family was sentenced to a five-year period of internal exile in Irkutsk, Siberia.

[1] Ulrikh personally executed Yan Karlovich Berzin, former head of Red Army Intelligence Directorate, later called GRU.

[2] During World War II, Ulrikh continued to hand down death sentences to people accused of sabotage and defeatism.

"[4] Otto Tief, the last acting prime minister of Estonia before Soviet occupation, described Ulrikh as "a youthful, round-faced and plump blond man in a general's uniform, with a gentle smile on his face.