NKVD - Wikipedia
WEBThe People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (‹See Tfd› 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 ...
NKVD | Soviet agency | Britannica
WEBGreat Purge, three widely publicized show trials and a series of closed, unpublicized trials held in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, in which many prominent Old Bolsheviks were found guilty of treason and executed or imprisoned.
NKVD prisoner massacres - Wikipedia
WEBThe NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, across Eastern Europe, primarily in Poland, Ukraine, the …
The 1941 NKVD Prison Massacres in Western Ukraine
WEBDuring the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) brutally murdered between 10,000 and 40,000 political prisoners in Western Ukraine over the course of eight days, which sparked waves of ethnic violence following the German occupation of the region.
Great Terror: 1937, Stalin & Russia | HISTORY
WEBMar 15, 2018 · Meanwhile, the Soviet secret police, known as NKVD, conducted three-member committees in the field to decide whether killings of other anti-Soviets were justified. The accused were tried, found...
Stalin's Security Force - Crime Museum
WEBStalin was historically paranoid and used the NKVD as his own private force for eliminating people he thought were disloyal or a threat. The main purpose of the NKVD was national security, and they made sure their presence was well known.
Communist Secret Police: NKVD - Spartacus Educational
WEBJoseph Stalin became angry with Genrikh Yagoda when he failed to obtain enough evidence to convict Nickolai Bukharin. In September, 1936, Nikolai Yezhov replaced Yagoda as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD).
What is the difference between the Cheka, the NKVD, and the KGB?
WEBJan 26, 2019 · The Cheka, or secret police, was established in 1917 during the Civil War in Russia. An acronym for All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, it was ...
Katyn massacre - Wikipedia
WEBMap of the sites related to the Katyn massacre. The Katyn massacre[a] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Stalin 's order in April and May 1940.
NKVD - People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs - GlobalSecurity.org
WEBThe NKVD arrested and tortured 45,000 Red Army officers and soldiers, wiping out the high command and much of the senior officer corps—15,000 were executed.