The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Russian: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, romanized: Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del, IPA: [nɐˈrodnɨj kəmʲɪsərʲɪˈat ˈvnutrʲɪnʲɪɣ …

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 …

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The NKVD [1] People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Russian : НКВД ; Народный Комиссариат Внутренних Дел) was a government department in the Soviet Union operated …

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 …

Mass operations of the People's Comissariate of Internal Affairs (NKVD) [1] were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people. As a rule, they were carried …

The NKVD arrested and tortured 45,000 Red Army officers and soldiers, wiping out the high command and much of the senior officer corps—15,000 were executed.

The NKVD played the dominant role in the terror of the 1930s, in which it carried out countless arrests, interrogations, and executions. Its special boards were empowered to sentence …

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 …

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agen...