The earliest Soviet secret police was the Cheka. This was a shortened form of the word "Vecheka" which was an acronym for the Russian word for the "All-Russian Extraordinary Committee Committee to Combat Counter-Revolution and Sabotage."
The Okhrana. The name comes from an abbreviation of the Russian words "okhrannoye otdelenie", which mean "guards department." The formal name is The Department for Guarding the Public Security and Order.
Originally it was Cheka but this was disbanded in 1922 to the State Political Directorate, or GPU. Under Stalin, the secret police in 1934 was renamed the People's Comissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD.
Originally it was Cheka but this was disbanded in 1922 to the State Political Directorate, or GPU. Under Stalin, the secret police in 1934 was renamed the People's Comissariat for Internal Affairs, or NKVD.
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the Granny police got there name because they would usually be an older person who stops any mothers from disobeying the one child policy
The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001
Formed in 1909 as the Secret Service Bureau it later became Military Intelligence Section 5 = MI5
Before the Russian Revolution the state security was called the Okhranka. Under Lenin that task was called the Cheka. It underwent several name changes OGPU, NKGB, MGB and then the MVD. It is currently called the FSB, with the foreign branch as the SVR.
There were two czars (or 'tsars,' depending on the system of transliteration) by the name of Nicholas. Nicholas I, whose reign lasted from 1825-1855, was the son of Tsar Pavel (also Romanized as "Paul") I. Nicholas II, the last ruling tsar, who abdicated the throne in favor of the provisional government in 1917, was the son of Tsar Alexander III.
What is the name of the secret police in Russia from 1954 to 1991?
The Gestapo
GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei -> Secret State Police)
Cheka was a name for the Soviets Secret Police.
Gestapo.
The Sureto
Gestapo
The "Citizen Corps"
The East German secret police was called the Stasi - short for Staatssicherheit (State Security).
The Nazi secret police were the Geheime Staats Polizei; which was shortened to Gestapo.
name of the secert police of Italy German and soviet union
A pig with clothes :d!