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The earliest Soviet secret police was the Cheka. This was a shortened form of the word "Vecheka" which was an acronym for the Russian word for the "All-Russian Extraordinary Committee Committee to Combat Counter-Revolution and Sabotage."
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∙ 13y agoThe Okhrana. The name comes from an abbreviation of the Russian words "okhrannoye otdelenie", which mean "guards department." The formal name is The Department for Guarding the Public Security and Order.
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∙ 12y agoOriginally it was Cheka but this was disbanded in 1922 to the State Political Directorate, or GPU. Under Stalin, the secret police in 1934 was renamed the People's Comissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD.
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Originally it was Cheka but this was disbanded in 1922 to the State Political Directorate, or GPU. Under Stalin, the secret police in 1934 was renamed the People's Comissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD.
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