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The NKVD: The Unsung Terror of Soviet State Security
The history of the Soviet Union is strewn with the shadows of its repressive security apparatus, and while many may be familiar with the notorious KGB, the path to its establishment is paved with equally dark figures and practices from the past. At the center of this chilling narrative is the NKVD, or the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, which ruled over the tumultuous 1930s and the backdrop of World War II, inflicting terror within the Soviet Union.