nkvd in English
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1. The Cheka and NKVD gradually evolved into the KGB and MVD
2. The operation was implemented according to NKVD Order No 00485 signed by Nikolai Yezhov.
3. He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in 1936 and arrested in 1937.
4. The NKVD gathered in tens of thousands of Soviet citizens to face arrest, deportation, or execution.
5. Once at the camps, from October 1939 to February 1940, the Poles were subjected to lengthy interrogations and constant political agitation by NKVD officers such as Vasily Zarubin.
6. According to declassified Soviet archives, in 1937 and 1938, the NKVD arrested more than one and a half million people, of whom 681,692 were shot.
7. The senior officer, whose blue collar tabs and hat band marked him as NKVD, was Brusque to the point of rudeness when he asked in accented Polish to see Colling’s
8. Since Poland's conscription system required every nonexempt university graduate to become a military reserve officer, the NKVD was able to round up a significant portion of the Polish educated class.
9. The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел: Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del; Russian pronunciation: [nɐˈrod.nɨj kə.mʲɪ.sə.rʲɪˈat ˈvnut.rʲɪ.nʲɪx̬ dʲel]), abbreviated NKVD (НКВД listen (help · info)), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
10. In Ukraine, a memorial complex was erected to honor the over 4300 officer victims of the Katyń massacre murdered in Pyatykhatky, 14 kilometres/8.7 miles north of Kharkiv in Ukraine; the complex lies in a corner of a former resort home for NKVD officers.
11. Destruction Battalions, colloquially istrebitels (истребители, "destroyers", "exterminators") abbreviated: istrebki (Russian), strybki (Ukrainian) were paramilitary units under the control of NKVD in the western Soviet Union, which performed tasks of internal security on the Eastern Front and after it