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 Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Polish military officers and reporters standing over the mass graves of thousands of Polish soldiers shot by the Russian political police (NKVD) at Katyn Forest, Poland, in the spring of 1943.
The NKVD was responsible for Stalin's infamous purges.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Katyn massacre
The NKVD took custody of Polish prisoners from the Red Army, and proceeded to organize a network of reception centers and transit camps and arrange rail transport to prisoner-of-war camps in the western USSR.
Altogether, during the massacre the NKVD murdered 14 Polish generals: Leon Billewicz (ret.), Bronisław Bohatyrewicz (ret.), Xawery Czernicki (admiral), Stanisław Haller (ret.), Aleksander Kowalewski (ret.), Henryk Minkiewicz (ret.), Kazimierz Orlik-Łukoski, Konstanty Plisowski (ret.), Rudolf Prich (murdered in Lviv), Franciszek Sikorski (ret.), Leonard Skierski (ret.), Piotr Skuratowicz, Mieczysław Smorawiński and Alojzy Wir-Konas (promoted posthumously).
Detailed information on the executions in the Kalinin NKVD prison was given during the hearing by Dmitrii S. Tokarev, former head of the Board of the District NKVD in Kalinin.
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 Katyn Massacre: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
For example, in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, plans for a memorial to the victims bearing the date 1940 (rather 1941) were condemned as provocative in the political climate of the Cold War.
In 1989 Soviet scholars revealed that Joseph Stalin had indeed ordered the massacre, and in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev admitted that the Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del[?] (NKVD) had executed the Poles, confirmed two other burial sites similar to the site at Katyn, and apologized to the Polish people.
In 1992, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian officials released the order, signed by Joseph Stalin and dated March 1940, to execute by shooting some 25,700 Poles.
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 GRU SV-8 - GRU & KGB
In 1935, Stalin used the GRU to purge the NKVD, Narodny Komisariat Vnutrennikh Del, “People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs.” Then, in 1937, Stalin used the NKVD to ruthlessly purge the GRU.
The NKVD, or People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, was crafted by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to be the instrument by which all threats to his political supremacy would be eliminated.
The NKVD performed against internal and external enemies of Josef Stalin from July 1934 until February of 1941.
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 Qwika - similar:Katyn_massacre
The NKVD (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (help·info))(Russian: НКВД, Народный комиссариат внутренних дел) or People's Commisariat for Internal Affairs was a government department which handled a number of the Soviet Union's affairs of state.
The NKVD is best known for the Main Directorate for State Security (GUGB), which succeeded the OGPU and the C...
Between April 3 and April 19, 1940, 6311 Polish officers from the Ostashkov POW camp were brought to the area of Miednoye and subsequently shot to death during the Katyn massacre.
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 Tribute to the M1A1/2, for you Operation Ivy - Page 17 - Military Photos
The NKVD dispatched one of its rising stars, Maj. Vassili Zarubin, to Kozelsk, where most of the officers were kept, to conduct interviews.
Post-Cold War revelations, however, suggest that the victims were shot in the basement of the NKVD headquarters in Smolensk and at an abattoir in the same city, although some may have been executed at a site in the forest itself.
During 1940-1941, the NKVD unleashed a reign of terror, arresting, torturing, and killing thousands of Poles and inciting national and ethnic violence among Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, and Belorussians in the former eastern Poland.
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 Katyn Blutbad - Browemerica
NKVD der Reihe nach befreite schnell 42.400 Soldaten.
Bis zum November 19, 1939, NKVD hatte ungefähr 40.000 polnisches POWs: ungefähr 8.500 Offiziere und Ermächtigung Offiziere, 6.500 Polizeioffiziere und 25.000 Soldaten und NCOs wurden noch als POW.[12 gehalten ].
Das NKVD nahm Schutz der polnischen Gefangener von der roten Armee, und fortgefahren, ein Netz der Aufnahmemitten zu organisieren und Lager zu bringen und Bahntransport zu den Kriegsgefangenlagern in der West-UDSSR zu ordnen.
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 Re: A visit to Katyn
Why?" "In 1952 a US Select Committee carried out one of its most exhaustive investigations ever into the affair, unanimously agreeing that "the Soviet NKVD (the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) committed the massacre of Polish Army officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia, not later than the spring of 1940".
Indeed, the committee also recognised that a plot to this effect existed as early as the autumn of 1939, ie shortly after Russia's invasion of Poland." http://www.pharo.com/warfare/katyn_forest/articles/wwkf_00_contents.asp "Many people don't know what happened in the Katyn woods.
This decision would eventually lead to the discovery of the horrors of Katyn." " These prisoners were not accounted for back in Poland and the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, were denying any knowledge of the whereabouts of the prisoners saying that all the prisoners had been released and returned to Poland.
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 Katyn Forest Massacre
Katyn Forest is a wooded area near Gneizdovo village, a short distance from Smolensk in Russia where, in 1940 on Stalin's orders, the NKVD shot and buried over 4000 Polish service personnel that had been taken prisoner when the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939 in WW2 in support of the Nazis.
In 1989, with the collapse of Soviet Power, Premier Gorbachev finally admitted that the Soviet NKVD had executed the Poles, and confirmed two other burial sites similar to the site at Katyn.
A copy of the "legalistic" pretext Tito's "communists" used to murder Professor Doctor Ljudevit Jurak, on 10 June 1945.
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September - NKVD investigation clears Bukharin and Rykov of involvement in anti-government conspiracies.
December 8 - Yezhov dismissed from NKVD and replaced by Beria.
February 3 - Overhaul of NKVD results in security and intelligence section assigned to NKGB (Narodny Kommissariat Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastosti) (People's Commissariat of State Security), headed by Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov.
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 Patchtimer.org forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The term "Katyn massacre" originally referred to the massacre, at Katyn Forest, near the village of Gnezdovo, located 12 miles (19 km) west of Smolensk, Russia, of Polish military officers confined at the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp.
Out of that 250,000 about half were released free by the army almost on the spot, and only 125,000 were delivered to the internal security services (the NKVD).
Among the approximately 170,000 released were mostly soldiers of Ukrainian and Belorussian nationality serving in the Polish army.
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 What Kind of Person Was Hitler? A Look at the Secondary Sources Part 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Unfortunately, all those things were separated from the corpses, so they could not be attributed to any concrete persons.
One thing is however of a crucial value – it is a driving license belonging to the person who appears on a partial list of the executed civilians, drawn up by the NKVD (those who were murdered in Ukraine).
In 1997, the Ukrainian authorities carried out exhumations in the neighborhood of the former NKVD prison in Vladimir in Volhynien in order to check information disclosed by the local population on burial of Stalin’s regime victims at that place.
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 The Katyn Massacre
In 1944, having retaken the Katyn area from the Nazis, the Soviets exhumed the Polish dead again and blamed the Nazis.
Not until 1989 were Communist documents released documenting the fact that the Soviet NKVD (Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del — the secret police force that later became the KGB) carried out the Katyn Massacre.
Source: Mitchell G. Bard, The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Katyn.html   (196 words)

  
 Axis History Forum :: View topic - Katyn mass murder question?
At a meeting in Moscow that day, Gorbachev presented Polish president General Wojciech Jaruzelski with copies of the NKVD's lists of names of Polish internees in the three camps mentioned.
Only three of the localities involved were named, and the total given fell short of the true figure.
It was just as well they admitted, it was a criminal an evil act designed to nail shut the coffin of Polish indenpendence.
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Valentin Markin (codenamed DAVIS, later HERBERT), the NKVD station chief in New York, had two valuable sources in the State Department codenamed WILLIE and DANIEL.
A year later, NKVD chief Nikolai I. Yezhov would launch a major purge of the GRU, becoming its chief (briefly) after shooting his predecessor, Yan K. Berzin.
Dickstein seems to have had as his motivation that the Communists were the only people doing anything to oppose fascism, so any sincere anti-fascist should join with them.
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 The Treaty of Berlin: Definitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Nemerov was actually named American Poet Laureate one year.
NKVD: (Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del) The People's Commisariat for Internal Affairs.
An earlier Soviet security agency that ultimately became the KGB.
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 Katyn massacre
Polish soldiers had become prisoners and were interned by the Soviets.
The film is produced by Akson Studio, and planned for release in the Autumn of 2007.
Litenē, notorious for murder of the Latvian Army officers by NKVD in June 1941.
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 Acronym Finder Definition: What does NKVD stand for?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Acronym Finder Definition: What does NKVD stand for?
Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, former Soviet Union under Stalin)
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 NKVD definition - Dictionaries - ninemsn Encarta
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[< Russian, abbreviation of Narodny Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del 'People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs']
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 ► » A visit to Katyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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police, the NKVD, were denying any knowledge of the whereabouts of the
" NKVD- Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del. If you are Polish NKVD
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 Voice From the Commonwealth
Does Kim Jong Il know when to stop?
...Alexander Orlov, an NKVD (Narodny Kommisariat Vnutrennikh Del, or People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) general who defected to the United States during the Great Purge, wrote a famous work called A Handbook of Intelligence and Guerrilla Warfare in which he stressed that the first rule was not to respond to provocation.
A group of Cuban patriots are lobbying the EU to remove special advantages to Castro.
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