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GUGB (Glavnoe upravlenie gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti)

Main Directorate for State Security. The security police, successor to the OGPU , subordinate to the NKVD . Existed from 1934 to 1941, 1941 to 1943, and 1953 to 1954.

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