Word: mvd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent a tall, sturdily built Russian in the uniform of a major in the MVD (secret police) to question the fugitives. Pirogov led off with the statement that he wasn't going back to Russia until there was a change in the regime. When the major kept referring to a "forced landing," Pirogov corrected him sharply: "There was no forced landing about it. I landed on U.S. territory because I intended to. This was an escape, not a forced landing...
...Strike Him?" After an hour of fruitless questioning, the major asked Pirogov whether he had given any thought to his family back in Russia. "I object!" an American officer put in heatedly. "That's coercion." "What do you mean, coercion?" the MVD man replied in an injured tone. "Did I strike him?" After an hour's argument over what constituted coercion, the major was finally allowed to ask whatever he wanted. He drew a blank...
...Ruedemann, and its director and technical adviser, George Bannantine. The two were taken to the forbidding grey stone pile at 60 Andrassy Ut which had once been headquarters for Hungary's branch of Hitler's Gestapo and is now used by the Hungarian version of the Soviet MVD. Three hours later questioning began...
...serious efforts to cut down Berlin's price. Economic strangulation is advancing steadily, but it is a slow process. Terror is a faster weapon. While Russian propaganda screams that U.S. forces have kidnaped 40,000 Berliners, while it warns in black newspaper headlines BERLIN IS NOT CHICAGO, the MVD proves its mastery of the arts of Capone and Beria. Warning phone calls, threatening letters, shadowing agents are merely the trivial daily nuisances that plague anti-Reds. The MVD's serious work is executed in a garish, blue-grey house on the Kupfergraben through which hundreds of Berliners have...
...normalcy of the Soviet state. Has he established a society whose normal members can be trusted to "keep order"? In a way, yes. An active Yezhov-type terror no longer stalks Russia. Most Soviet citizens go to bed at night without fearing that Beria's MVD will pound on their doors. This security, however, is bought at a terrible price. The Russian people live in a sort of "house arrest." They dare not shift from city to city in search of work. They do not talk or even think too long about how they are ruled. If they...