NKVD
Government & Politics abbreviation · World Government
| Stands for | People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs |
|---|---|
| Categories | Government & Politics |
NKVD stands for People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, a world government abbreviation.
Soviet interior ministry and secret police in the 1930s and 1940s, which ran the Gulag labor camp system and carried out mass arrests and executions during the Great Purge of 1936 to 1938.
Example: Her grandfather was arrested by the NKVD in 1937 and never returned.
Usage notes
The initials come from the Russian Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del. Its officers carried out the 1940 Katyn massacre of Polish prisoners. Its security functions were later separated and eventually passed to the KGB in 1954. Successive names for the Soviet secret police included Cheka, OGPU, NKVD and MGB.
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