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NKVD: see secret police secret police, policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures.
The Nature of a Secret Police..... Click the link for more information. . NKVD People’s Commisariat of Internal Affairs, USSR police agency (1934–1943) that carried out purges of the 1930s. [EB, VII: 366] See : Spying How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Russian security apparatus Cheka (and its later permutations: OGPU, NKVD, MGB, KGB) had been the "sword and shield" of the communist world revolution. DeVille seems so concerned with terminological accuracy, it is odd that he should describe the NKVD as the Ukrainian secret police. Fifteen of its loans are from the State Museum of Art in Riga, which holds some four hundred objects donated in 1964 by Kulagina in memory of her husband, who was summarily executed in February 1938 by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. |
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