Word: nkvd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slid through a secret panel into a secret room, radioed secret information to the Germans. But Boris was after him. Boris was 6½ ft. tall and hair grew in swirls all over his body, but he managed to steal unnoticed in & out of the German lines on NKVD (secret police) missions. Boris did his best, but though Traitor Blazonny fell at last (with five bullets through his body), so did Rostov...
...direct the rehabilitation of the regained soil; ordered the return of 571,500 head of evacuated cattle, horses, sheep. The committee's head is plump Georgi Malenkov, one of Stalin's ablest trouble shooters. Among the members is the professorial-looking Georgian, Lavrenti Beria, chief of NKVD (formerly OGPU...
...Lavrenti Beria - "scholarly-looking, soft-spoken . . . who looks like a physician but whose innocent-sounding title. Commissar for Internal Affairs, means that he is the head of the NKVD [ex-Ogpu...
...Battle of Russia had become in tensely personal to Joseph Stalin. His own life, which he had so zealously guarded with such alphabetical horrors as OGPU and NKVD, was endangered now by a horror called TNT. His own three rooms in the Kremlin were threatened: on seven occasions within a week bombs had fallen inside the old fort...