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| | NKVD Order no. 00485 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | NKVD Order no. 00485, (On measures to protect the USSR from penetration of spying, terrorist and diversion elements), approved on August 9, 1937 by the VKP(b) Central Committee Politburo and signed by Nikolai Yezhov on August 11, 1937 was the basis for Polish operation of the NKVD in 1937-1938. |
 | | NKVD troikas summarized materials of investigations into lists (typed horizontally, hence the name) sent for decision by the regional chief of NKVD and prosecutor (the commission informally known as dvoika (twosome), unlike troika, the term was not used officially). |
 | | However even the album form was considered too burdensome, and Special Troikas were introduced locally to implement verdicts immediately, without correspondence with Moscow. |
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