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NKVD

Definition of NKVD
  • the secret police agency in the former Soviet Union which absorbed the functions of the former OGPU in 1934. It merged with the MVD in 1946.

Origin:

abbreviation of Russian Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del 'People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs'

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