Word: nkvd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pair dodged surreptitiously all over Manhattan? Judy explained that Gubichev was afraid that his wife had hired detectives to follow them. He had also "petrified" her by muttering that the NKVD might be after him. Judy had thought the whole business was very silly -particularly sitting on different seats in an all-but-empty subway car. She had never dreamed that the car behind was stacked with FBI agents...
...heart of Moscow, on Furkasovsky Alley, stands a new yellow brick, nine-story building, resplendent with black marble pilasters. Sentries are posted at the doors. Up and down, the Alley plainclothesmen saunter with studied unconcern. This is the home of the all-powerful EKU (Ekonomicheskoe Upravlenie), economic division of NKVD...
...building on Furkasovsky Alley come reports on each country's military and industrial potential, on conditions in local Communist parties. Briefs are prepared for the Kremlin, where the facts are correlated with reports from other intelligence agencies, such as INO (Inostranny Otdel), the foreign espionage department of the NKVD, and Razvedupra, the reconnaissance division of the Red army. Thus fortified from Furkasovsky Alley, Messrs. Stalin, Molotov & Co. revise their foreign policies and issue new directives to Communist parties abroad...
Gliksman was one of those Socialists who had thought that the Stalin regime would welcome non-Communist radicals. When he was arrested he tried to convince the NKVD it was making a mistake. The mistake, as others have discovered before & since...
...succeeded by a shrieking little man named Nikolai Yezhov, who wanted to get back at the world for the years he had spent in bitter poverty. He began his reign by purging the ranks of the NKVD, successor to the OGPU. Next he purged Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and practically the entire High Command of the Red Army. He gave his name to two of the Red Terror's maddest years (1936-38), the "Yezhovshchina." In the Yezhovshchina, the most fantastic denunciations were accepted at face value by the NKVD; no one was safe. Terror was completely indiscriminate, torture equal...