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=  = = **Before Stalin (1917-1934)** =
 * ==== The first Soviet state security organization was the All-Reussian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage. (1) ====
 * ==== Vecheka controlled police, criminal investigation departments, fire brigades, internal troops and prison guards. (1) ====
 * ==== On February 8, 1922 the civil war ended transforming Cheka into GPU (State Political Directorate) which was changed to the NKVD. (1) ====
 * ==== The NKVD was soon stripped of control when the USSR was formed upgrading to an independent directorate of the soviet council of peoples commissars. (1) ====

= **The Stalin Era (1934-1953)** =
 * ==== Stalin gave the NKVD the same powers of arrest, trial and execution that the now subordinate OGPU once had. (2) ====
 * ==== Anyone arrested by the NKVD was given a speedy trial that resulted in execution due to as simple as opposition to his regime. (2) ====
 * ==== The NKVD used intense interrogation to break down prisoners. ====
 * ==== The intenseness included threatening to arrest and execute members of the prisoner's family if they did not confess to what they were being accused of. (2)====
 * ====Stalin used the NKVD to find and execute all the leading figures involved in the Russian Revolution except for himself. (2)====
 * ====Stalin executed ten of the fifteen original members Bolshevik government, while the other four died for mysterious reasons. (2)====
 * ====In the Communist Party of Congress there were 1,966 delegates. 1,108 were arrested over the next five years by the NKVD. Seventy tried publicly while the rest tried secretly before being executed. (2)====
 * ====Between 1935 and 1941, 19.8 million people were arrested by the NKVD. Seven million of them were executed. (2)====
 * ====After the Second World War the Communist Secret Police was renamed the Committee for State Security (KGB). (2)====

Genrikh Yagoda

 * ==== While Stalin was the leader of all operations, Genrikh Yagoda was the head of the NKVD from 1934 to 1936. (2) ====
 * ==== Genrikh Yagoda arrested more than a quarter of a million people. (2) ====
 * ==== Genrikh Yagoda was demoted and arrested for conspiracy in 1936. (2) ====
 * ==== Genrikh Yagoda, arrested Lev Kamenev, Gregory Zinoviev, Ivan Smirnov, and thirteen others and accused them of being involved with Leon Trotsky in a plot to murder Joseph Stalin and other party leaders. (2) ====

Nikolai Yezhov

 * ==== Nikolai Yezhov was promoted to head of NKVD in 1936. (2) ====
 * ==== Under Nikolai Yezhov's rule, there were 1.5 million people arrested and 700,000 people shot. (2) ====
 * ==== Nikolai Yezhov was soon demoted due to treason and all traces of his existence were erased in 1938. (2) ====

Lavrenty Beria

 * ==== Lavrenty Beria reigned as head of NKVD and later the MVD from 1938 to 1953. (2) ====
 * ==== In 1953 Lavrenty Beria was arrested for treason, and later he was tried and executed on December 23, 1953. (2) ====

= **Post Stalin Era (1954-Present)** = > ==== On March 5,1953 Stalin died of natural causes. (2) ====
 * ==== The reformed MVD gained it traditional policing and security functions back. (2) ====
 * ==== The KGB took on the state security functions of the MGB. (2) ====
 * ==== The KGB is now under the rule of the USSR. (2) ====

= **Relation To Animal Farm** =
 * ==== Not police, but forced the animals to support Napoleon. ====
 * ==== Used force, often killed animals that did not support Napoleon. ====
 * ==== Completely loyal to Napoleon. ====

**Citation**
 * 1) de Valcourt, P. (2011, February 7). NKVD and The Great Terror Part I. Retrived from: [|http://www.collectingsoviethistory.com]
 * 2) History of the NKVD. (2000, April 1). Retrieved from: [|http://nkvd.org]