NKVD

1. in the U.S.S.R., the government's secret-police organization (1917–30; 1934–46).

NKVD

abbreviation for

1. (formerly) People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs: the Soviet police and secret police from 1934 to 1943: the police from 1943 to 1946

Word History and Origins

Origin of NKVD¹

From Russian N(aródnyĭ) K(omissariát) V(nútrennikh) D(el) “People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs”

Word History and Origins

Origin of NKVD¹

from Russian Narodny komissariat vnutrennikh del People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs

Example Sentences

The apartment was given to the chauffeur of Lavrenti Beria, the head of the NKVD.

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Informers kept the NKVD secret police abreast of what those who defended him said in private conversation.

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On March 13, 1947, the NKVD arrested Klein, along with fifteen other young Christian Democratic leaders.

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The bodyguards first called the minister of state security, who then called the head of the NKVD.

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