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Yes. It was founded in 1917 soon after the Bolshevik Revolution and for most of the period 1917-1926 it was headed by Felix Dzherzhinsky. It had various various names and from 1954 till the collapse of the USSR in 1991 it was referred to as the KGB.
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∙ 7y agoHis secret police when he first became General Secretary was the State Political Directorate, or GPU.
In 1934 it was renamed the People's Comissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, or NKVD).
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Soviet secret police?
name of the secert police of Italy German and soviet union
Does the Soviet Union have a secret police?
Seeing as the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, no.
When did Bruno Schmidtsdorf die?
Bruno Schmidtsdorf died on February 28, 1938, in Soviet Union of murdered by Stalinist Secret Police.
Explain the conservative leaders of the traditional Soviet institutions opposed the breakup of the Soviet Union name the institutions these leaders represented?
The possible breakup of the Soviet Union would mean an end to their priviliges - amongst the conservatives were the secret police and the army. hope this helps =)
What was the cheka?
Cheka was a name for the Soviets Secret Police.
What four letter acronym were the secret police force called in Stalin's time?
KGB was the acronym for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security, The State security agency in the former Soviet Union.
Soviet intelligentsia what is it?
The Soviet Intelligence Agency, the KGB, was both an Intelligence Agency and 'Secret Police'.
A soviet commission that worked as secret police against counterrevolution?
Cheka ctcandjte
How does a totalitarian crush opposition?
Usually, totalitarian regimes have a secret police (KGB in the Soviet Union, Gestapo in Nazi Germany, SAVAK in Imperial Iran etc.) and this secret police will arrest suspected dissidents, jail them, torture them, and disappear them. Anyone who does not agree with the regime is summarily removed this way.
Was Joseph Stalin head of the SS?
No, Stalin was the head of the Soviet Union and overall head of the secret police, the NKVD. The SS were a group of soldiers forming Hitler's (Germany) bodyguards.The SS was also part of the secret police.
What is the nvkd?
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin.
What was the red secret police?
The soviet secret police were known as the NKVD. They are responsible for the death of millions under Joseph Stalin's rule. The Soviet secret police were first known as the "Cheka" from its acronym. It began under Vladimir Lenin. Then it was known as the GPU and shortly after that the OGPU, when the organization was given nation wide authority. The OGPU, still a secret police force, was later transferred into and became a department of the the NKVD. The NKVD was in charge of both secret and public police since it handled all matters concerning internal security.
