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Secret Police, KGB, and NKVD
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Tanay Bidnurkar
Secret Police, KGB, and NKVD
Connection to Animal Farm
KGB
NKVD
Secret Police
- Main security agency for Soviet Union, 1954-91
- Acted as internal security, intelligence, and secret police agency
- Followed Soviet Army rules
- Used to suppress political and religious conflict
- Provided Stalin's bodyguards
- Had spies who would
- Take on an identity as someone else pretending to be living in a country
- Capture/photograph documents, code names, and targets
- Arrange kidnappings and assassinations
- Formed under Joseph Stalin and became a secret police agency
- Stalin directly used NKVD to eliminate enemies, especially during Great Terror in 1930s
- The NKVD was tasked with:
- Conducting mass executions
- Running forced labor camps
- Suppressing resistance
- Deporting people
- Protecting borders of Soviet Union
- Spying on enemies
- The NKVD caused:
- Large scale-executions
- Acts of terrorism on people in the Soviet Union
- Forced deportations
- Killed enemies of Stalin
- Collected nuclear weapons plans from US and UK
- Intelligence agencies that operate secretly
- Operations are hidden from everyone except high ranking officials
- They can:
- Arrest and detain
- Punish without a trial
- Tap phones
- Check mail
- Trick, blackmail, or coerce people into providing information
- Often found in totalitarian states
- Use violence and acts of terrorism to protect power of dictator
- Death squads kill people seen as a threat to dictator
- Napoleon's guard dogs represent the KGB, but the dogs also carried out some of the duties of the NKVD
- Stalin used the NKVD to get rid of enemies, Napoleon used his dogs to kill animals who opposed him (based on the Great Purge of 1930s)
- Stalin used the KGB to conduct foreign intelligence operations, Napoleon used the dogs to spy on the other animals and find out what they were planning
- The NKVD protected borders, the dogs fought in battles to defend Animal Farm
- The KGB protected Soviet leaders, the dogs were Napoleon's bodygaurds
Left: KGB emblem
Below: KGB agents in Afghanistan in the 1980s
Vladmir Putin, current President of Russia, was a Lt. Col. in KGB for 16 years, stationed in Germany
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/4279125
Above Left: NKVD emblem
Above Right: NKVD troops patrolling the border
Left: Uniform of NKVD troops
Left: The various uniforms of the KGB
Credits
"KGB." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Nov. 2014. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.
"NKVD." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 27 Nov. 2014. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.
"Secret Police." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Nov. 2014. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.
"Secret Police." Secret Police. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.