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