Word: nkvd
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Industrial Ambassador. Nine agents of the Ogpu, or NKVD as J. Stalin now prefers to call Soviet secret police, went last week with Ambassador Davies in the special train put at his disposal to tour Soviet industrial centres in the primarily agricultural Ukraine. His private car, furnished free by the Government, was what Russians now know as a "Commissar's Saloon Car," for really big Reds today have a private car thrown in with their State jobs. There was an ordinary sleeping car for the NKVD and correspondents, another for the Davies party to use at night...
Anyone can take exactly the same 2,000-mile trip made by the U. S. Ambassador last week, under the auspices of Intourist, the Soviet State Travel Bureau, but not with the same super-service from Stalin's NKVD. When rich Mr. Davies liked a picture in a State store so well that he paid 5,000 rubles smack down for it last week-nominally $1,000-J. Stalin's Sherlocks began muttering among themselves. These dread Soviet police sent for a nervous Russian art expert, he appraised the picture as worth 800 rubles, and the NKVD cracked...