Over the years it had many different names. During the worst period of Stalin's bloody regime when its agents murdered millions it was called the NKVD, The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.

They finally heard the stories of how, during World War II, elite divisions of the NKVD, the predecessor of the KGB, and the military were deployed to deport the entire Chechen and Ingush ...

The 1943 exhumation of a mass grave of Polish officers killed by the NKVD in the Katyn Forest in 1940.Photo: Unknown, probably Polish Red Cross delegation, uploaded by Andros64, Public domain ...

In it, Bolton compared Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, who was head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, under Stalin. “Trump has nominated Kash Patel ...

In May 1941, Lysenko personally signed off on a list of NKVD-selected experts who wrote a report supporting the trumped up charges against Vavilov. All these chapters are vividly written.