STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1840, sig. 109-5/68 (damaged)

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41a - 40 - Protection of the revolutionary order, whereby the first decree of circumcision of the Jurisdictional Right of the GPU could be raised again to the fall of death sentences, when the NKVD. granted GPU. "special orders". After the formation of the Soviet Union in 1923, the Gpu became. In 1934, a People's Commissariat of the Interior became the NKVD for the whole of Udsr. It was called the "United State Political Administration" (OGPu = Ob'jedinjennoe Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoe Uprawlenie). It was directly a member of the Council of People' s Commissions and its head was a consultative member of Council of the Peoples' Commissars. (So far, each state had created a People's Commissariat of the Interior, which was then subordinated to the Peoples' Commissariate of the interior of the UdSsR.) A new reform of the OGPU took place by losing this designation and as a division of the NKwD. (People's Commission of the Inner) was taken over. In February 1941, the Volkskommis- sariat fürheit aus dem Volkskommi the state security. and to a self-employed commissioner of the state.