Disambiguation evidence for UB (Polish secret police) via surface form

"Urząd Bezpieczeństwa"


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Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "Urząd Bezpieczeństwa".

Predicate Object
activeDuring Stalinist period in Poland
activeDuring early Cold War
allegiance Polish Committee of National Liberation
allegiance Polish People’s Republic
country Poland
dissolved 1956
hasPart counterintelligence departments
hasPart investigative departments
hasPart prison and detention facilities
hasPart regional security offices
headquartersLocation Warsaw
historicalAssessment widely condemned for human rights abuses
historicalRole consolidation of communist rule in Poland
ideology communism
inception 1944
influencedBy NKVD
influencedBy NKVD
surface form: Soviet security services
instanceOf secret police agency
instanceOf state security service
jurisdiction Polish People’s Republic
languageOfWork Polish
mainTask counterintelligence
mainTask internal security
mainTask persecution of political opposition
mainTask political repression
mainTask surveillance of society
nativeLabel Resort Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego
nativeLabel Urząd Bezpieczeństwa
notableFor censorship and control of information
notableFor repression of anti-communist underground
notableFor show trials of political opponents
notableFor use of torture during interrogations
operatedIn Poland
opposed Catholic Church activists
opposed Home Army veterans
opposed Polish anti-communist resistance
opposed independent political parties
partOf Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego
replacedBy Służba Bezpieczeństwa
shortName UB
subordinateTo Polish United Workers' Party
surface form: Polish United Workers’ Party
subordinateTo Polish Workers' Party
surface form: Polish Workers’ Party
supportedBy Soviet Union
usedMethod forced confessions
usedMethod informant networks
usedMethod labor camps and prisons
usedMethod mass arrests
usedMethod surveillance and wiretapping