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| | secret police. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 |
 | | Many states, including Chile, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Romania, and South Africa, have used secret police to control internal dissent; the former East Germanys much feared Stasi (State Security Ministry) controlled every aspect of life, including the postal service and communications industry. |
 | | Under National Socialism, Germany became a police state, a state where the power of the police, and especially the secret police, over security and justice was tyrannically applied with virtually no procedural checks. |
 | | The NKVD was split (1943) into the NKVD and the NKGB (Peoples Commissariat for State Security), the former retaining responsibility for internal security; in 1946 the NKVD became the MVD (Ministry of Interior), and the NKGB became the MGB (Ministry of State Security). |
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