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Assorted References

association with KGB
- In KGB: Pre-KGB Soviet security services
control of intelligence gathering
- In intelligence: Russia and the Soviet Union
role in Katyn Massacre
- In Katyn Massacre

history of

Ukraine
- In Ukraine: The last years of Stalin’s rule
U.S.S.R.
- In Soviet Union: Internal, 1930–37

role of

Stalin
- In Joseph Stalin: The great purges
Yagoda
- In Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: The National WWII Museum - The 1941 NKVD Prison Massacres in Western Ukraine.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jan 05, 2024
	Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Communist Secret Police: NKVD.	Aakanksha Gaur	Dec 23, 2022
	Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - NKVD - People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 30, 2022
	Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - NKVD.	Aakanksha Gaur	Sep 09, 2022
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998