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Menzhinsky, The Chief of the G. P. U. is Viacheslav Rudolphovitch Menzhinsky, son of a former nobleman and a Pole, like his late, great predecessor Felix Edmundovitch Dzerzhinsky, first head of the Ogpu which was then called the Cheka...
Where the trouble is of a more personal character, the G. P. U. is equipped to carry an individual through the stages of arrest, interrogation, sentence and if necessary execution without going outside its own organization. For this reason it is said that "The Ogpu is the State." But as Josef Stalin controls both the Ogpu and the Government it is more correct to say that he is the state, or that in Russia there are two parallel states...
...Russians seldom do, add a fourth initial "O," making O.G.P.U. or "Ogpu." This stands for Ob'yedinennoye Gosudarstven-noye Politicheskoye Upravleniye, meaning United State Political Administration. M.G.P.U. is the Moscow...
...everywhere in the Soviet Union. Two-medal men may ride from one end of the Union to the other and back twice a year. Heroes belonging to all three orders may use the rail and waterways of Soviet Russia free for any distance at any time. Agents of the Ogpu (Secret Police) also enjoy this privilege...
...Amtorg Trading Corp. does not finance OGPU (Soviet secret police...