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  2. Lavrentiy Beria - Wikipedia

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    Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria [a] (29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War.

  3. Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies - Wikipedia

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    Lavrentiy Beria (March 5, 1953 – June 26, 1953) Sergei Kruglov (June 1953 – March 13, 1954) The 1954 ukase establishing the KGB. March 13, 1954: Newly independent force became the KGB, as Beria was purged and the MVD divested itself again of the functions of secret policing. After renamings and tumults, the KGB remained stable until 1991.

  4. Gestapo–NKVD conferences - Wikipedia

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    Secret Supplementary Protocol (2), German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty 28 September 1939 Between 24 October and 23 November 1939, a total of 42,492 Polish prisoners of war were transferred from Kozelsk and Putyvl camps across the Nazi–Soviet demarcation line and handed over to the Germans. [ 10 ]

  5. John Bolton compares Kash Patel to Soviet secret police leader

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    Beria was appointed by former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin as deputy chief of the Soviet secret police and was head of the Soviet atomic bomb project, according to the Atomic Heritage ...

  6. NKVD - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union) - Wikipedia

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    The MGB essentially inherited the "secret police" function of the old NKVD, conducting espionage and counterespionage, as well as enacting a policy of supervision and surveillance to keep control and to prevent disloyalty. After World War II, the MGB was used to bring the newly acquired Eastern Bloc under Soviet control. It enforced rigid ...

  8. Russian governor shows off new Stalin statue to 'honour' history

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    Videos previously published by Filimonov demonstrate an affinity for Soviet leaders and photographs of secret police chiefs Lavrentiy Beria and Felix Dzerzhinsky hang on the walls of his office.

  9. Russian espionage in Germany - Wikipedia

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    After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet NKVD under secret police chief Lawrenti Beria carried out purges in the Soviet occupation zone on behalf of Josef Stalin. Over 154,000 people were arrested and imprisoned in 10 special camps, such as the converted Sachsenhausen concentration camp from the Nazi era. In addition to Nazi ...