NKVD troika or Special troika (Russian: особая тройка, romanized: osobaya troyka), in Soviet history, were the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD which would later be the …

Aug 15, 2024 · The Soviet “militsiia” functioned as criminal police and reported to the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD); the NKVD supervised the Central Militsiia …

Feb 9, 2013 · One of the tools that Yezhov used frequently was the NKVD troika or Special troika (‘Troika’ literally means “a group of three” in Russian). They were commissions of three …

Between 20 September and 10 October the NKVD Special Troika (Matuzenko, Kupriyanov and Mikhailovich) held eight sessions during which it examined more than 1,809 cases and issued …

This period also saw the prevalence of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) Troika, administrative and extrajudicial bodies tasked with carrying out the repression of “anti …

The chairman of a troika was the chief of the corresponding territorial subdivision of NKVD (People's Commissar of a republican NKVD, etc.). Usually a troika included the prosecutor of …

From October 1, 1936 to November 1, 1938 bodies of the NKVD of the USSR arrested 1,565,041 persons. Including 702,656 persons were arrested under NKVD order No. 00447. During this …

OSCE troika, the leadership of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe: the chairman-in-office and the previous and incoming chairmen-in-office; NKVD troika, a …

Feb 7, 2011 · Their main and most feared concept was the troika or three man "extrajudicial" system which was charged with the duty of taking some of the burden off of the standard …

A NKVD-troika (НКВД тройка) was threesome used as an additional instrument of extrajudicial punishment. It was introduced to supplement the legal system with a means for quick …