• The State Political Directorate (Russian: Государственное политическое управление, romanized: Gosudarstvennoye politicheskoye upravleniye), abbreviated...
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    The Joint State Political Directorate (Russian: Объединённое государственное политическое управление, IPA: [ɐbjɪdʲɪˈnʲɵn(ː)əjə ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əjə pəlʲɪˈtʲitɕɪskəjə...
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  • Commissioner 1st rank of State Security Yakov Agranov. The Main Directorate of State Security evolved from the Joint State Political Directorate (or OGPU). On February...
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  • Russian Civil War, the Cheka were in power, relinquishing it to State Political Directorate (GPU) in 1922 after the fighting was over. The GPU was then renamed...
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  • the Foreign Directorate (INU); political police represented by the Secret Political Department (SPO) became the Secret Political Directorate (SPU), and...
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    State Political Directorate or OGPU. In July 1934, OGPU was reincorporated into NKVD of the Soviet Union, and renamed the Main Directorate of State Security...
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    KGB (redirect from 15th Directorate)
    (контрразведывательное обеспечение объектов транспорта и связи)) 5th Directorate (Political police) 6th Directorate (Counter-Intelligence Support for the economy) (6-е...
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    NKVD (category Political repression in the Soviet Union)
    succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) secret police organization, and thus had a monopoly on intelligence and state security functions...
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    The Directorate of State Security (Albanian: Drejtoria e Sigurimit të Shtetit, DSSh), commonly called the Sigurimi, was the state security, intelligence...
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  • People's Commissars of the USSR. OGPU – "Joint State Political Directorate" or "All-Union State Political Board" Dzerzhinsky (November 15, 1923 – July 20...
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    the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB), State Political Directorate (GPU), MGB, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, KGB and the First Chief Directorate (PGU). At...
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    Felix Dzerzhinsky (category Political repression in the Soviet Union)
    agency was reorganized as the State Political Directorate (GPU) in 1922, and then as the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) a year later, with Dzerzhinsky...
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  • romanized: operatsiya "Trest") was a counterintelligence operation of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the Soviet Union. The operation, which was set up by...
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    Department of the Cheka became part of a renamed organization, the State Political Directorate, or GPU. The Foreign Department was placed in charge of intelligence...
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    works, and forestry. The camp was administered by the Joint State Political Directorate from 1932 to 1934, the NKVD from 1934 to 1946 and the Ministry...
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  • Hay'ada Sirdoonka iyo Nabadsugida) Soviet Union (former): Cheka State Political Directorate (GPU) People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) which...
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  • Service), active in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Sigurimi (Directorate of State Security), active in the People's Socialist Republic of Albania Département...
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    confining political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups, on the grounds of state security...
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    under the auspices Central Executive Committee of the BSSR, a State Political Directorate is formed. In July 1934, an NKVD republican affiliate was formed...
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    the responsibilities of the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD were transferred to the new Ministry of State Security (MGB) as a completely...
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    The State Security Service, also known by its original name as the Directorate for State Security, was the secret police organization of Communist Yugoslavia...
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    Yakov Blumkin (category State Political Directorate officers)
    Socialist-Revolutionary, a Bolshevik, and an agent of the Cheka and the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). Blumkin was born into a Jewish shopkeeper's family, was...
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    The Directorate, or Directory (Ukrainian: Директорія, romanized: Dyrektoriia) was a provisional collegiate revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian...
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  • was a chief of the Foreign Department of the Cheka, i.e. the State Political Directorate or GPU, and then the OGPU of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist...
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  • a disinformation operation developed and carried out by the State Political Directorate, aimed at eliminating Savinkov's anti–Soviet underground. The...
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    Sharashka (category Political repression in the Soviet Union)
    Trial were formed into a special design bureau under the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), which was then the Soviet secret police.[citation needed]...
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  • (1922–1923) (State Political Directorate) Obyedinennoye Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (OGPU) (1923–1934) (Joint State Political Directorate) Narodnyi...
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    Bolshoy Dom (category Political repression in the Soviet Union)
    1917. It was originally constructed in 1931–32 for the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), the secret police of the Soviet Union at the time. The...
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    Pyotr Fedotov (category State Political Directorate officers)
    and was put in charge of one of the Secret Political Department Sections in the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD. He rose to the top of...
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    of the Joint State Political Directorate. In April 1957, the school was put under the authority and jurisdiction of the Committee for State Security (KGB)...
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