Word: nkvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Koba," he yelled, "why do you let the NKVD arrest my men without informing...
...broadcast from Tiflis, Georgia reported the execution of six former NKVD interrogators, the imprisonment of two others, for having made "false charges and employed criminal prosecution methods strictly forbidden by Soviet law" against "honest cadres who were loyal to the Communist Party and the Soviet government." Among the victims named: Sergo Ordzhonikidze. "The accused took part in collecting incriminating evidence against Ordzhonikidze . . . Later, terrorist acts of violence were committed against members of [his] family and nearest friends." Motive for the murders: "The accused helped Beria hide his criminal past and his odious deception of party and government, and [destroyed] those...
...said London's Daily Telegraph, like school prefects lecturing the student body. "The Head Prefect talked soberly about the tone of the school, and received solemn nods from the Old Boys on the Opposition benches. Were we to have a 'kind of NKVD or OGPU system in our public offices'? No, the House murmured quietly, we were not. The prefects, on both sides of the House, were only too anxious to deal tidily with a discreditable story which involved the honor of the school." As Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary in the former Labor government, explained: "Five governments...
...liberate mankind and introduce a higher morality is to convert its most devoted adherents into a dark, anonymous army committed as a duty to crime, duplicity and terror. The main spy organization is the GB (Gosudarstvennaya Bezopasnost -State Security), whose list of names reads like alphabet soup, e.g., GPU, NKVD, MGB, since it began life as the CHEKA in 1917. Furthermore, allied and sometimes competing with the GB are the spy apparats of the Red army, the Ministry of Trade and the Communist Party itself. Their strength lies in two things: 1) size, i.e., their agents probably outnumber, says Dallin...
...becomes more than a little ridiculous that the U.S., up to 1953, was so little aware of what was happening to the millions of NKVD victims in Russia and China that we could be surprised at what had happened to our soldiers in Chinese prisons - that our military leaders proved their utter confusion by cold contempt toward the prisoners broken by the Reds, and by court-martial proceedings against these prisoners later...