NKVD

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NKVD	Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, former Soviet Union under Stalin)

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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. Putin's Russia: the return of the iron fist by Jasper, William F. / The New American DeVille seems so concerned with terminological accuracy, it is odd that he should describe the NKVD as the Ukrainian secret police. Book review by Hornjatkevye, Lada / Catholic Insight 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. Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina: International Center of ... by Gough, Maria / Artforum International More results

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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.

Putin's Russia: the return of the iron fist by Jasper, William F. / The New American

DeVille seems so concerned with terminological accuracy, it is odd that he should describe the NKVD as the Ukrainian secret police.

Book review by Hornjatkevye, Lada / Catholic Insight

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.

Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina: International Center of ... by Gough, Maria / Artforum International

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