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...Stalin takes no chances. Attached to his nationwide espionage service, the Gay-Pay-Oo, or OGPU, are 110,000 picked troops, the praetorians of the Dictatorship. Never seen on so conspicuous a spot as Lenin's tomb is the Chief of the Gay-Pay-Oo, dyspeptic Viacheslav Rudolphovich Menzhinsky (below at left). The Gay-Pay-Oo have the right to seize anyone without a warrant, to try and condemn the prisoner without a jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Recognizable Russians | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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