people's commissariat of internal affairs
21intelligence — /in tel i jeuhns/, n. 1. capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. 2. manifestation of a high mental capacity: He writes with… …
22Berlin Wall — For the chess opening variation, sometimes known as Berlin Wall, see Berlin Defence. View from the West Berlin side of graffiti art on the wall in 1986. The wall s infa …
23Stasi — This article is about the secret police of East Germany. For its other common meaning, see Stasi Commission. For the regular police in East Germany, see Volkspolizei. Ministerium für Staatssicherheit …
24State Political Directorate — Not to be confused with GRU, a Soviet embodiment with a similar acronym. Soviet poster of the 1920s: The GPU strikes on the head the counter revolutionary saboteur. The State Political Directorate was the secret police of the Russian Soviet… …
25Soviet occupations — World War II seriesv · d · e …
26Inner German border — Innerdeutsche Grenze North and central Germany …
27Kremlin Regiment — (also called The Presidential Regiment, Russian: Кремлëвский полк [ Kremlyovskiy polk ] , Президентский полк [ Prezidentskiy polk ] ) is a unique military regiment, a part of Russian Federal Protective Service with the status of a special unit.… …
28Lavrentiy Beria — Infobox Officeholder name = Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria Georgian: ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия imagesize = 113px nationality = Georgian / Soviet order = Commissariat for Internal Affairs… …
29NKVD — (NARODNIY KOMMISSARIAT VNUTRENNIKH DEL) The People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the NKVD, was formed on 10 July 1936 from the OGPU. It included all the organs of repression and intelligence of the Soviet government in one department, as …
30Mass surveillance — A closed circuit television camera. Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof. Modern governments today commonly perform mass surveillance of their citizens, explaining that they… …
