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| | OGPU |
 | | Ob'edinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie (or OGPU') (Combined State Political Directorate, also translated as All Union State Political Board) was the name of the secret police in the Soviet Union in one of the stages of its development. |
 | | In 1917, Dzerzhinsky founded the Cheka, later OGPU, later the KGB, the secret police arm of the Soviet state. |
 | | MELITOPOL, Ukraine, in 1907, Pavel Sudoplatov followed an older brother into the Cheka at the age of 14, moved up to the Moscow OGPU in 1933, and performed secret NKVD missions in Western Europe in the mid-1930s. |
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