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NKGB
- in the U.S.S.R., the government's secret-police organization (1941–46).
NKGB
abbreviation for
- (formerly) People's Commissariat of State Security: the Soviet secret police from 1943 to 1946
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Origin of NKGB1
< Russian N ( aródnyĭ ) k ( omissariát ) g ( osudárstvennoĭ ) b ( ezopásnosti ) People's Commissariat for State Security
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Origin of NKGB1
from Russian Narodny komissariat gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti
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