OGPU

Meaning of OGPU in English

early security and political police of the Soviet Union and a forerunner of the KGB (q.v.).

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OGPU — /og"pooh/ , n. (in the U.S.S.R.) the government's secret-police organization (1923-1934). Also, Ogpu . Cf. Cheka, KGB . [ Ógpu, …
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OGPU — n. (the USSR) secret police organization of the government between 1923-1934
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YAGODA, GENRIKH (GRIGORYEVICH) — born 1891, Łodz, Pol., Russian Empire died March 15, 1938, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet politician. A leader of the Cheka …
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KGB — Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti ("Committee for State Security") Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. It was the …
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LETTRE DE CACHET — |le.trədəˌka|shā noun ( plural let·tres de cachet “) Etymology: French : a letter bearing an official (as a royal) seal …
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YAGODA, GENRIKH GRIGORYEVICH — born 1891, Lodz, Pol., Russian Empire died March 15, 1938, Moscow Yagoda also spelled Jagoda head of the Soviet secret …
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KGB — Russian in full Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), political police and security agency that was also the primary …
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GULAG — abbreviation of Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey (Russian: Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps), the system of Soviet labour camps and …
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YAGODA, GENRIKH GRIGORYEVICH — born 1891, 0141; odz, Pol., Russian Empire died March 15, 1938, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet politician. A leader of the …
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YAGODA, GENRIKH — born 1891, 0141; odz, Pol., Russian Empire died March 15, 1938, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet politician. A leader of the …
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KGB — n. Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti ("Committee for State Security") Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. It was …
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VIGILANTES — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, constabulary, county …
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TROOPER — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, G-man, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, bailiff, …
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SECRET POLICE — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, bugging, cloak-and-dagger …
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POSSE — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, KP, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, age …
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POLICE — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, administer, arm, …
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MILITARY POLICE — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, constabulary, county …
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LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, constabulary, county …
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CONSTABULARY — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, bailiwick, bureau, …
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SCOTLAND YARD — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, constabulary, county police, highway …
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MOUNTIES — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, constabulary, county police, …
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MP — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, G-man, Gestapo, Interpol, MVD, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, …
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INTERPOL — Synonyms and related words : AL, ANZUS Council, ASPAC, Arab League, BIS, British Commonwealth, CACM, CENTO, Central Treaty Organization, Cheka, …
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GESTAPO — Synonyms and related words : Cheka, FBI, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, constabulary, county police, …
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