Over the years it had many different names. During the worst period of Stalin's bloody regime when its agents murdered millions it was called the NKVD, The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.

Stalin hesitated for almost two weeks in May-June 1937 before giving the NKVD the go ahead for the purge of the top Red Army leadership. His response to the growing evidence provided by Nicolai Yezhov ...

the OGPU (later the NKVD), from the 1920s on. The second part of the book focuses on Vavilov's fall from Josef Stalin's favor, which eventually led to Vavilov's arrest, and the rise of Trofim ...

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

In it, Bolton compared Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, who was head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, under Stalin. “Trump has nominated Kash Patel ...

In the case of the village of Khaibakh, the NKVD burned alive 700 of its residents ... four years after Stalin’s death. In 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the first democratic ...

Stalin approved Lavrentiy Beria’s plan to eliminate thousands of Polish army and police officers, border guards and intelligentsia taken prisoner in September 1939. In April and May, the NKVD ...