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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Seeing as the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, no.
Bruno Schmidtsdorf died on February 28, 1938, in Soviet Union of murdered by Stalinist Secret Police.
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 =)
Cheka was a name for the Soviets Secret Police.
KGB was the acronym for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security, The State security agency in the former Soviet Union.
The Soviet Intelligence Agency, the KGB, was both an Intelligence Agency and 'Secret Police'.
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.
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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.
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.
Stalin used the police state to arrest and either execute or censor anyone who openly opposed or criticized him. This of course maintained his power because without any open opposition, people did pretty much whatever he wanted. This policy did weaken the Soviet union in the long run though, because it killed large numbers of useful and productive members of society, as well as creating resentment against Soviet rule.