WebThe NKVD is known for its role in political repression and for carrying out the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. It was led by Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria. The NKVD undertook mass extrajudicial executions of citizens, and conceived, populated and administered the Gulag system of forced labour camps. Their agents were ...

WebThe NKVD [1] People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ( Russian : НКВД ; Народный Комиссариат Внутренних Дел) as a government department in the Soviet Union operated from 1934-1946 . It was the law enforcement agency which did the will of the All Union Communist Party.

WebLe NKVD (en russe : НКВД, l'abréviation de Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, Narodniï komissariat vnoutrennikh diel ou Commissariat du peuple aux Affaires intérieures) était l'organisme d'État — équivalent à un ministère — d'abord dans les républiques socialistes soviétiques constituant l'URSS et ensuite dans l'URSS entière, dont relevait la …

WebNKVD. El Comisariado del Pueblo para Asuntos Internos (en ruso, Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, romanizado : Naródny komissariat vnútrennij del, abreviado como NKVD (НКВД, según su acrónimo ruso ), fue un departamento gubernamental soviético que manejó cierto número de asuntos internos de la ...

WebThe 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 Eastern Europe, primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Bessarabia. After the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the NKVD troops …

WebHet NKVD, het Volkscommissariaat voor Binnenlandse Zaken was een departement en een van de machtigste staatsorganen van de Sovjet-Unie. Het NKVD is vooral bekend geworden van het Hoofddirectoraat voor staatsveiligheid, dat verantwoordelijk was voor de binnenlandse veiligheid. Het NKVD als organisatie bestond met tussenpozen van 1917 …

WebFrom August 1937 to October 1938, 353,513 people were arrested and 247,157 were shot in the national operations of NKVD. It is estimated that this would make up 34% of the total victims of the Great Purge. Polish Operation of the NKVD ~111,091 killed. NKVD Order No. 00485; German Operation of the NKVD ~41,898 killed

WebThe special groups of the NKVD for fighting against nationalists (Russian: Специальные группы НКВД по борьбе с националистами) were units set up by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union to combat national liberation movements, mainly in territories annexed by the USSR before the German-Soviet war …

WebThe Polish Operation of the NKVD in 1937–1938 was an anti-Polish mass-ethnic cleansing operation of the NKVD carried out in the Soviet Union against Poles during the period of the Great Purge. It was ordered by the Politburo of the Communist Party against the so-called "Polish spies" and customarily interpreted by the NKVD officials as relating to 'absolutely …

WebNKVD troika or Special troika, in Soviet history, were the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs made up of three officials who issued sentences to people after simplified, speedy investigations and without a public and fair trial. The three members were judge and jury, though they themselves did not carry out the sentences they dealt. These commissions …