Joseph Stalin's "secret police" were GPU; OGPU; GUGB; NKGB and the MGB.
The following were NOT Stalin's "secret police."
The Cheka was started by Lenin and became the GPU before Stalin took over.
The NKVD is often referred to as a "secret police" force, but it wasn't just that. It was an internal security force that included regular uniformed police and firefighters. The "secret police" were agencies within the NKVD. Thus, the NKVD was not truly a "secret police" force. The "secret police", the GPU and later the OGPU were agencies within the NKVD. In addition, most of the NKVD operatives were uniformed.
The KGB was created after Stalin died.
In many ways these "secret police" agencies were not "secret police" in the sense that they sought perpetrators of crimes. They were more accurately the "political police" rooting out people who were considered counter-revolutionaries, criticized the state or were otherwise not loyal to it.
GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei -> Secret State Police)
It was called the Gestapo.
The Gestapo.
The East German secret police was called the Stasi - short for Staatssicherheit (State Security).
the gestapo
GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei -> Secret State Police)
The Gestapo was a secret police that showed their strength with the use of terror. Hitler and the Nazi party used this secret police to hunt down Jews, gypsies, etc. Once they found them, they would be sent to the concentration camps.
NKVD
It was called the Gestapo.
The Gestapo.
It was called Gestapo
The East German secret police was called the Stasi - short for Staatssicherheit (State Security).
the gestapo
Ekaterina Gheladze Djugashvili
The secret police were the Gestapo's.
He had a group of "secret police" called the Gestapo.
Gestapo.___No, the Gestapo was the secret police. The Stormtroopers were called the Sturmabteilung or SA in German.