Word: mvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official party newspaper Pravda laid down the indictment: Beria 1) had been using the MVD (secret police) "against the party and its leadership and against the government ... by selecting workers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of personal loyalty to himself"; 2) had "impeded decisions on the most important and urgent problems concerning agriculture . . . with a view to undermining the collective farms and creating difficulty in the country's food supply"; 3) had striven "to activize bourgeois nationalist elements in the Union republics...
...Rosenbergs, et al.; 2) uranium mined by his prisoners and impressed workmen in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and, probably, Arctic Siberia. While the Cominform's Andrei Zhdanov was making the most noise about eastern Europe, Beria quietly stepped down from his police job (now a full ministry, the MVD) and took over the organization of the satellite countries, the consolidation of the Soviet Union's own republics...
Near Chemnitz, in the highly sensitive Saxony uranium mines area, where not only Soviet troops but the Soviet MVD mount stringent guard, workers rose up and destroyed mining facilities. Apparently thousands joined...
...more than five years for "major thefts of social property," for premeditated murder or banditry, or for "counterrevolutionary crimes." The barbed wire is thus kept tight around the bulk of the estimated 10 million to 20 million prisoners in Soviet slave labor camps. Also apparently unchanged is the old MVD regulation which stamps the "Minus Six" or "Minus Fifteen" code on the papers of ex-convicts, barring them forever from the six, or, in more extreme cases, the 15 most important Russian cities and their environs...
...boxes are the work of China's Beria, Lo Jui-ching, boss of the Peking equivalent of the MVD. Assisting Lo in the work is a resident corps of well-paid Russian "specialists...