MVD
MVD stands for Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del - Ministry of Interior Affairs, in the USSR and nowadays Russia.
In the Soviet era, the Minstry of Interior Affairs also functioned as a secret police. In March 1946 the NKVD was renamed to MVD. (All People's Commissariats (NK) were redesignated Ministries (M). Thus the NKVD became the MVD and the NKGB became the MGB.)
In March 1953 Lavrenty Beria united the MVD and MGB into one body, the MVD. Within a year Beria's execution caused the MVD to be split up. The reformed MVD retained its internal security functions while the new KGB took on state security functions.
Referenced By
Afghani-Soviet War | History of Russia and the Soviet Union (1917-1927) | History of the Soviet Union | History of the Soviet Union: Part I | History of the Soviet Union (1917-1927) | History of the USSR | Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti | Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti | List of special forces units | NKVD | Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennih Del | Solomon Mikhoels | Soviet-Afghan War | Soviet Attack on Afghanistan | Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan | Soviet Union Attack on Afghanistan | Soviet Union Invasion of Afghanistan | Soviet Union invades Afghanistan | Soviet intervention in Afghanistan | Soviet invasion in Afghanistan | Soviet invasion of Afganistan | TLAs from MAA to PZZ | The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan | The Soviet Union's Invasion of Afghanistan
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