NKVD

During the 1930s, Slezkine reports, the secret police, now known as the NKVD, “was one of the most Jewish of all Soviet institutions”, with 42 of the 111 top officials being Jewish.

It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

The favorite tortures of the Soviet Cheka, or secret police (then called NKVD) in the 1930's and 40's were merciless beatings, confinement in refrigerated cells, week-long sleep deprivation, and endless interrogations.

Eric Margolis: Make the Torturers Face Justice 2009

It should be called NKVD HQ, because it is dominated by ideologues.

Archive 2004-04-01 2004

What really interested him was proving that the NKVD could be a powerful part of the economy.

Inside the Gulag Applebaum, Anne 2000

You are right, the NKVD was the precursor of the KGB.

digg.com: Stories / Popular 2008

One mourner affixed a sign reading "NKVD" on the memorial, covering the word "Nazis" in the inscription such that it read "In memory of Polish officers murdered by the NKVD in 1941."

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010

The NKVD is the KGB of the time, came, said, "You sign here.

Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin 1990

(They also delight in slinging about phrases like "the NKVD man in Havana"; the Soviets have not used "NKVD" since 1943.) terminate with extreme prejudice.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2 1982

Under Stalin, Politburo member Anastas Mikoyan had said that: “Every citizen of the USSR is a collaborator of the NKVD,” the acronym then used for the secret police.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Anti-Soviet revolts broke out periodically—in particular in 1929–1930, as agriculture was forcibly collectivized—but they were put down by NKVD troops.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011