NKVD (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

  1. in the U.S.S.R., the government's secret-police organization (1917–30; 1934–46).
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  1. (formerly) People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs: the Soviet police and secret police from 1934 to 1943: the police from 1943 to 1946
NKVD (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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