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OGPU

(also Ogpu)

Definition of OGPU

an organization for investigating and combating counter-revolutionary activities in the former Soviet Union, existing from 1922 (1922-3 as the GPU) to 1934 and replacing the Cheka. It was absorbed into the NKVD in 1934.