EUROPEAN and RUSSIAN COLLECTIBLES
By V.N. Collectible
Aug 8, 2020
1927 Boblett Street Blaine, WA 98230, USA, United States
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LOT 118152:

RUSSIAN NKVD KPSS TOP SECRET ENVELOPE for JEW, 1926

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RUSSIAN NKVD KPSS TOP SECRET ENVELOPE for JEW, 1926
RARE RUSSIAN NKVD - KPSS TOP SECRET ENVELOPE for JEW, 1926
Inscription in Russian. The letter was sent to Gurwitz Aron - Jew. He was shot after that.
CONDITION: The item is described to the best of our knowledge. Please refer to pictures and email with any questions.
SIZE: 227 x 167 mm (8.9 x 6.6 inches). Please note: last image is for sample only.
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WIKIPEDIA: The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, abbreviated NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. Established in 1917 as NKVD of Russian SFSR, the agency was originally tasked with conducting regular police work and overseeing the country's prisons and labor camps. It was disbanded in 1930, with its functions being dispersed among other agencies, only to be reinstated as an all-union ministry in 1934. The functions of the OGPU (the secret police organization) were transferred to the NKVD in 1934, giving it a monopoly over law enforcement activities that lasted until the end of World War II. During this period, the NKVD included both ordinary public order activities, as well as secret police activities. The NKVD is known for its role in political repression and for carrying out the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. Mobile gas vans were used to execute people without trial during the Great Purge. It was led by Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria. The NKVD undertook mass extrajudicial executions of untold numbers of citizens, and conceived, populated and administered the Gulag system of forced labour camps. Their agents were responsible for the repression of the wealthier peasantry, as well as the mass deportations of entire nationalities to uninhabited regions of the country. They oversaw the protection of Soviet borders and espionage (which included political assassinations), and enforced Soviet policy in communist movements and puppet governments in other countries, most notably the repression and massacres in POLAND.

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