OGPU
Proper noun
Meaning
OGPU
(historical) The Joint State Political Directorate (Russian: Объединённое государственное политическое управление), the intelligence and state security service and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934.
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However, kulaks proper made up only 4% of the peasant population; the "kulaks" that Stalin targeted included the slightly better-off peasants who took the brunt of violence from the OGPU and the Komsomol.
The Unified State Political Administration (OGPU) quickly realized the problem, and began to reform the dekulakization process.
Philby also dealt with Anatoly Gorsky (code-name Kap) the OGPU rezident in London and his predecessor, a German known as Reif (code-name Mar).