NKVD

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

Compare Cheka.

Origin of NKVD

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

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Contemporary Examples of nkvd

The apartment was given to the chauffeur of Lavrenti Beria, the head of the NKVD.
When Stalin Met Lady Macbeth
Brian Moynahan
November 9, 2014
Informers kept the NKVD secret police abreast of what those who defended him said in private conversation.
When Stalin Met Lady Macbeth
Brian Moynahan
November 9, 2014
On March 13, 1947, the NKVD arrested Klein, along with fifteen other young Christian Democratic leaders.
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David Frum
November 23, 2012
The bodyguards first called the minister of state security, who then called the head of the NKVD.
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Noah Charney
July 6, 2012

British Dictionary definitions for nkvd

NKVD

abbreviation for

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

Word Origin for NKVD

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

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