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

Almost from its inception as an instrument of "revolutionary justice" following the Bolshevik revolution, the Soviet secret police, known successively as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB and, since 1954, the KGB, has been synonymous with terror and coercion.

From Time Magazine Archive

The system of commissars and political instructors, which extends down through the army command to company level, is Chekist, and popularly called so, though the official name has changed many times �OGPU, GPU, NKVD, MGB, MVD.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to Mrs. Trotsky, her son was at first jailed for several months, then given work in a factory where he could be accused of "committing sabotage," then clapped back into jail for schooling by the Ogpu prior to his forthcoming trial.

From Time Magazine Archive

Menzhinsky, The Chief of the G. P. U. is Viacheslav Rudolphovitch Menzhinsky, son of a former nobleman and a Pole, like his late, great predecessor Felix Edmundovitch Dzerzhinsky, first head of the Ogpu which was then called the Cheka.

From Time Magazine Archive