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Ogpu|ˈɒgpuː|
Also O.G.P.U.
[f. the initials of the Russ. Ob{pp}edinënnoe Gosudárstvennoe Politícheskoe Upravlénie United State Political Directorate.]
An organization for investigating and combating counter-revolutionary activities in Soviet Russia, which superseded the Cheka and the G.P.U. (G. III. f) in 1923 and was replaced by the N.K.V.D. (N II. 1) in 1934.
1923Times 24 Nov. 13/5 By special decree the Soviet Government has created a new Supreme International Cheka (State Political Department), which is called ‘Ogpu’ (Unified State Political Department). 1927Daily Tel. 7 June 10/2 A report from Leningrad states that the Ogpu (Cheka) has officially announced the execution without trial of ‘all the active members of a band of incendiaries’. 1927Glasgow Herald 13 June 12/3 The fertile imagination of the Ogpu, or ‘State Political Department’. 1927Daily News 17 Nov. 7/4 Trotzky is under arrest..and is being watched by officials of the O.G.P.U. (Secret Police). 1928Sunday Times 8 Jan. 11/1 The day has gone by when Ogpu sought to conceal itself. 1939Ann. Reg. 1938 211 The new chief of the O.G.P.U., one Beria, appointed only in November, is stated to have dismissed 470 of the highest officers. 1940[see Gestapo]. 1940War Illustr. 12 Jan. 608/1 Reported that Russians have brought up picked Ogpu troops into Karelian Isthmus. 1949[see Cheka]. 1958C. Cockburn Crossing Line vi. 97 Dedicated men..with pistols in their hands ready to blaze away in case this OGPU desperado should get up to any tricks. 1972T. Wittlin Commissar (1973) xxxiv. 248 For almost ten years an intensive chase after Agabekov was conducted by the men of the OGPU in Paris. |