The main function of the NKVD was to protect the state security of the Soviet Union through massive political repression, including authorized murders of many thousands of politicians …

The 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 …

national anthem of the Soviet Union Instrumental version of “State Anthem of the Soviet Union,” the national anthem of the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1991. Its melody is identical to the …

Stalin 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 …

During 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 …

2010年5月24日 · In 1992, the discovery in the Soviet archives of the NKVD’s secret operational order n° 00447 of July 30, 1937, has drastically changed our perception of Stalin’s Great …

The NKVD prison massacres in Lviv were a mass murder of prisoners held in Lviv prisons and detention centers, carried out by Soviet NKVD and NKGB officers in the last days of June …

A history of the entire process of developing and administering a police state in the Soviet Union. It was circulated in samizdat (underground publication) form in the Soviet Union until its official …

In April 1943, the Soviet intelligence service, the NKGB (People's Commissariat for State Security) had been made independent of the NKVD (Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs).

2024年11月18日 · The NKVD had cleansed Karelian society from people of Finnish descent who immigrated to the Soviet Union not only from Finland, but from Sweden, Norway, the USA, and …