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Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies. There were a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time. The first secret police after the October Revolution, created by Vladimir Lenin 's decree on December 20, 1917, was called "Cheka" (ЧК).
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Also, the term chekist often referred to Soviet secret...
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State Political Directorate. The State Political Directorate...
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Secret police (or political police) [3] are police, intelligence, or security agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, religious, or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. [4]
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Established in 1917 as NKVD of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, [1] the agency was originally tasked with conducting regular police work and overseeing the country's prisons and labor camps. [2] . It was disbanded in 1930, and its functions were dispersed among other agencies.
The Katyn massacre [a] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv ...
Amy Knight, The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union, Unwin Hyman (1990) ISBN 0-04-445718-9 Richard C.S. Trahair and Robert Miller, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations , Enigma Books (2009) ISBN 978-1-929631-75-9
