NKVD

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Soviet state security agency interior ministry secret police

The NKVD was the Soviet Union’s interior ministry and secret police organization, notorious for political repression, mass arrests, and executions, especially under Joseph Stalin.

Aliases (10)

People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ×3
Soviet NKVD ×3
Soviet secret police ×3
Ministry of State Security of the USSR ×1
NKVD (state security functions) ×1
NKVD of the Russian SFSR ×1
SMERSH ×1
Soviet NKVD operations ×1
Soviet security services ×1
Народный комиссариат внутренних дел ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet state security agency → interior ministry → secret police →
abbreviation	NKVD →
country	Soviet Union →
dateDissolved	1946 →
dateFormed	1934 →
fullName	People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs →
headquartersLocation	Moscow →
ideology	Marxism–Leninism →
jurisdiction	Soviet Union →
languageOfWork	Russian →
legalBasis	decrees of the Soviet government →
loyalTo	Communist Party of the Soviet Union →
nativeName	Народный комиссариат внутренних дел →
notableLeader	Genrikh Yagoda → Lavrentiy Beria → Nikolai Yezhov →
notoriousFor	fabrication of charges → show trials → use of torture during interrogations →
operatedDuring	Stalin era → World War II →
oversaw	NKVD Troops → border troops → internal troops →
partOf	Council of People's Commissars of the USSR →
predecessor	Cheka → GPU → OGPU →
responsibleFor	Great Purge → Gulag system operations → Katyn massacre → border security → counterintelligence → deportations of entire ethnic groups → enforcement of Stalinist policies → espionage abroad → executions of political opponents → forced labor camps administration → internal security → mass arrests → political repression in the Soviet Union → suppression of dissent →
subordinateTo	Joseph Stalin →
successor	KGB → MGB → MVD →
usedMethod	arbitrary detention → informant networks → surveillance →

Referenced by (54)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Gulag system → Norilsk camps → Solovki prison camp ("Soviet secret police") → Vorkuta camps →	operatedBy
Stanisław Radkiewicz ("Soviet NKVD") → Urząd Bezpieczeństwa → Urząd Bezpieczeństwa ("Soviet security services") →	influencedBy
Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) → Katyn massacre → Polish deportees in the USSR →	perpetrator
Nikolai Yezhov → Ramón Mercader →	employer
Freedom and Independence → Home Army →	opponent
Polish Underground State → Stanislav Kosior →	persecutedBy
MVD → NKGB →	predecessor
NKVD →	abbreviation
Beria period of the NKVD →	appliesTo
Vsevolod Meyerhold →	arrestedBy
Lubyanka Building ("Soviet secret police") →	associatedWith
The Gulag Archipelago →	criticizes
Raoul Wallenberg →	detainedBy
Home Army →	enemyOf
From Russia, with Love ("SMERSH") →	featuresOrganization
Cheka →	followedBy
NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs") →	fullName
Polish–Soviet relations ("Soviet NKVD") →	hasKeyOrganization
Council of People's Commissars ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs") →	hasPart
September Campaign →	hasParticipant
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland →	implementedBy
Államvédelmi Hatóság ("Soviet NKVD") →	inspiredBy
Unternehmen Barbarossa →	involvedForce
Yezhovshchina →	mainPerpetrator
NKVD ("Народный комиссариат внутренних дел") →	nativeName
Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) →	organisedBy
Trial of the Sixteen →	organizedBy
Stalinist repressions →	organizer
GPU ("NKVD of the Russian SFSR") →	parentOrganization
Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey →	partOf
Polish POWs →	perpetratorOfCrimesAgainstThem
KGB ("NKVD (state security functions)") →	precededBy
Left Opposition ("Soviet secret police") →	repressedBy
Katyn massacre ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs") →	responsibleOrganization
Soviet government →	securityAgency
Polish Workers' Party →	securityCollaboration
Stalin era →	securityOrgan
Lubyanka Building →	securityServiceHeadquartersFor
Soviet government ("Ministry of State Security of the USSR") →	stateSecurityMinistry
Main Camp Administration →	subordinateTo
Soviet partisans →	supportedBy
Lubyanka Building →	usedBy
Eastern Poland ("Soviet NKVD operations") →	wasAffectedBy