NKVD
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nkvd-212-882712
title:
NKVD
text:
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) secret police organization, and thus had a monopoly on intelligence and state security functions. The NKVD is known for carrying out political repression and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations on the Eastern Front of World War II. The
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Secret police of the Soviet Union (1934–1946)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD
date created:
2002-05-23T03:50:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T02:10:04Z
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