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The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Russian: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, romanized: Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del, IPA: [nɐˈrodnɨj kəmʲɪsərʲɪˈat ˈvnutrʲɪnʲɪɣ dʲel]), abbreviated as NKVD (Russian: НКВД; listen ⓘ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the ...
The Council of People's Commissars in 1919. Title reads "Top Authority of the Russian Soviet Republic" The Council of People's Commissars (CPC) (Russian: Совет народных комиссаров (СНК), romanized: Sovet narodnykh kommissarov (SNK)), commonly known as the Sovnarkom (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist ...
A People's Commissariat (Russian: народный комиссариат, romanized: narodnyy komissariat; Narkomat) was a structure in the Soviet state (in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in other union and autonomous republics, in the Soviet Union) from 1917–1946 which functioned as the central executive body in charge of managing a particular field of state activity or ...
During the Soviet struggle to establish control over Western Ukraine, NKVD units dressed as UPA fighters [1] committed atrocities in order to demoralize the civilian population, and to turn the people against nationalist groups. [2] Some of the NKVD units consisted of former UPA members.
By the Decision of Georgian Revolutionary Committee of March 6, 1921, the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of Georgia was established. On August 8, 1941, by the Decree of the Presidium of Supreme Council of Georgian SSR , the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs and the People's Commissariat of State Security have merged into ...
NKVD – "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs" GUGB – "Main Directorate for State Security" Lavrentiy Beria (July 20, 1941 – April 14, 1943) NKGB – "People's Commissariat for State Security" Vsevolod Merkulov (April 14, 1943 – March 18, 1946) (NKGB reseparated from NKVD) March 18, 1946: All People's Commissariats were renamed to ...
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR was created on 15 March 1946 from the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the interior ministry of the Soviet Union since 1934, when all the People's Commissariats (the Soviet equivalent to a government ministry) were rebranded and transformed into the Ministries of the Soviet Union.
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD 1934–46) Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB 1934–41) People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB, Feb Jul-1941/1943–46) Ministry for State Security (MGB, 1946–53) Committee for State Security (KGB, 1954–91)