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 | | Its initial reponsibilies also included penitentiaries, firefighting, state enterprises, the state postal system, state property, construction, roads, medicine, clergy, natural resources, and nobility; most of them were transferred to other ministries and government bodies by the mid-1800s. |
 | | After the February Revolution of 1917, the Gendarmes and the Okhranka were dismissed as anti-revolutionary. |
 | | Having won the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks dismissed the tsarist police forces and formed all-proletarian Workers' and Peasants' Militsiya under NKVD of the Russian SFSR. |
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