In it, Bolton compared Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, who was head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, under Stalin. “Trump has nominated Kash Patel ...

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

The historic Dom Turka facility in Augustow, Poland, is set to become the House of Remembrance of the Augustow Roundup.

the main reason why Vavilov was under secret surveillance by the Soviet political police, the OGPU (later the NKVD), from the 1920s on. The second part of the book focuses on Vavilov's fall from ...