Word: ogpu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Espionage. The dread Ogpu (sometimes abbreviated Gpu) or secret police is given its unfamiliar official designation by Mr. Lee as, "The Union State Political Department...
Late last summer, Savinkov was caught by the ogpu (secret police, successors to the Tsars' okrana) and subsequently brought to trial (TIME, Sept. 8). Although the organizer of many political assassinations, including those of Von Plehve and Grand Duke Sergius, he had become an enemy of the Bolsheviki...
...workers, however, could not see matters in this light and were interested solely in get ting enough to eat, which they declared would be the case if grain were left in the country. Evidence of much agitation among the workmen was seen in the increased activity of the Ogpu (secret police). The discovery of a committee to oppose the Government's grain-export policy was unearthed. This committee was engaged in exhorting the industrial workers, the railway men and the Red Army to thwart the Government, declaring that the latter was impervious to the dire distress of the hungry...