OGPU

American  

[og-poo] / ˈɒg pu /

Or Ogpu

noun

1. (in the U.S.S.R.) the government's secret-police organization (1923–1934).

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Ogpu British  

/ ˈɒɡpuː /

noun

1. the Soviet police and secret police from 1923 to 1934

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Etymology

Origin of OGPU

< Russian Ógpu, for Obʾʾedinënnoe gosudárstvennoe politícheskoe upravlénie Unified State Political Directorate

Example Sentences

Moura would surely not have bothered with this deception if two years earlier she had confessed to being a regular visitor to the Soviet Union in the pay of OGPU.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2011

He began his reign by purging the ranks of the NKVD, successor to the OGPU.

From Time Magazine Archive

First it was the Cheka, next the OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.�but essentially they were all the same.

From Time Magazine Archive

But before Nachman is sacrificed to the OGPU, Author Singer has long ago sacrificed him as a plausible character.

From Time Magazine Archive

Attached to his nationwide espionage service, the Gay-Pay-Oo, or OGPU, are 110,000 picked troops, the praetorians of the Dictatorship.

From Time Magazine Archive