OGPU
noun
(in the U.S.S.R.) the government's secret-police organization (1923–1934).
OGPU
American
[og-poo]
/ ˈɒg pu /
Or
Ogpu
noun
Ogpu
British
/ ˈɒɡpuː /
noun
Etymology
Origin of OGPU
< Russian Ógpu, for Obʾʾedinënnoe gosudárstvennoe politícheskoe upravlénie Unified State Political Directorate
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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
But before Nachman is sacrificed to the OGPU, Author Singer has long ago sacrificed him as a plausible character.
From Time Magazine Archive
He began his reign by purging the ranks of the NKVD, successor to the OGPU.
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
Nor could the visiting citizen escape the surveillance of the Ogpu, formerly the Cheka or secret police, the successors of the Tsar's secret agents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of Russia's 55,000 redeemed sinners sweated under Ogpu Chief Genrikh Yagoda who later sinned himself, and last week Yagoda was in the purgatory managed by his successor, Commissar for Internal Affairs Nikolai I. Yezhov.
From Time Magazine Archive
For this reason it is said that "The Ogpu is the State."
From Time Magazine Archive
Zinoviev and Kamenev have now been shot, Tomsky is a suicide, and Alexei Rykov last week was under investigation by the Ogpu as a possible Trotskyist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unpleasantly suggesting Russia's Ogpu and Germany's Gestapo, Richard Frankensteen's double-crossing dramatized and typified the system of U. S. labor spying described by witnesses before the La Follette committee in recent weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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