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Ogpu

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Ogpu [ˈɒgpuː]
n
(Historical Terms) the Soviet police and secret police from 1923 to 1934
[from Russian O(byedinyonnoye) g(osudarstvennoye) p(oliticheskoye) u(pravleniye) United State Political Administration]


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An OGPU detachment knocked on his Moscow door and he was hauled off to the Lubianka, but he refused to sign any confession.
I believe it necessary to show this letter to [Feliks] Dzerzhinsky [the head of the OGPU] with extreme secrecy (no copies) and to all members of the Politburo and to prepare a directive: 'To direct Dzerzhinsky OGPU to work out measures with the assistance of Semashko and to report to the Politburo (two week deadline?
According to the OGPU (Ob" edinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie, the security police) report on the incident a "massive scandal resulted which compromised the whole brigade.
 
 
 
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