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OGPU - The Joint State Political Directorate (also translated as the All-Union State Political Administration and Unified State Political Directorate) was t...
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The Joint State Political Directorate (also translated as the All-Union State Political Administration and Unified State Political Directorate) was the secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934. Its official name was "Joint State Political Directorate under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR" (Russian: ), Obyedinyonnoye gosudarstvennoye politicheskoye upravleniye pri SNK SSSR, or (OGPU). * With the formation of the Soviet Union in December 1922, a unified organization was required to exercise control over state security throughout the new union. Thus, on November 15, 1923, the Soviet State Political Directorate left the Soviet NKVD and became the all-union Joint State Political Directorate. Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the GPU, became the OGPU's first chief. * Like the GPU before it, the OGPU operated - in theory - with more restraint than the original Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka of 1917-1922. The OGPU's powers increased greatly in 1926, when the Sov |