NKVD

Was the NKVD just a state death squad like some people say?
Would such a thing be necessary in modern days if a socialist nation should arise?

yes and yes

NKVD was good proles, dindu nuffin.

The Stalin-era purges were actually really bad under the NKVD. A lot of old Bolsheviks along with other people were exterminated through summary executions into unmarked mass graves, or occasionally died to torture and exacerbated illness.

It might have been a death squad but the reason for its existence was a hell of a lot more materialist than most other death squads.

This wasn't the Cheka. read J. Arch Getty

It was a tool to maintain the control of the Party over the country and the control of Stalin over the Party. And it killed people to do both those things. Keeping control of the country was a necessity no matter the cost, Stalin's personal dictatorship - who knows.

no thanks i'm good

you're worthless

You are talking like every capitalist nation don't have such squad ready right now. Yes, even your small irrelevant country, europoor.

What a stupid post.

What is stupid about the fact that every state (or ruling class in general) needs means to kill key opposition members when other mechanics fail?

Because it has nothing to do with OP's inquiry about a facet of Soviet history and all you want to do is offer a comment that no one wants.

I'm just pointing out that yes, it was a death squad, and yes, it will be necessary in any state. Are you an idiot or just pretending to be retarded?

Who gives a shit what you point out? Everyone knows about that.
Are you trying to insult me because you can't bring yourself up to the fact that your post is useless?

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It was a death squad for kulaks

The NKVD was basically what the FBI is here in 🍔burger🍔stan. The only difference is the FBI is a lot more light handed nowadays.
Well that at the NKVD had responsibility over border security and provided a pretty wide range of support for the military.

The Soviet secret police (Cheka-GPU-OGPU etc) was pretty bad but it was the worst during the NKVD.

Kvlt as fuck, Satanic Stalinist Deathsquads when?

the nkvd was literally just the ministry of the interior, they also mananged the local police
(their ministry of state security was the one with all the purges). also Felix yezov was a bad man and comrade Stalin was right to purge them

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What does this even fucking mean bahaha
You people have no self-awareness whatsoever

Broke: The NKVD was the Soviet Gestapo
Joke: The NKVD were state-sponsored death squads
Woke: The NKVD were neo-oprichniki

NKVD was literally a police force, nothing else, nothing more.

They weren't a death squad, because all they did was what a police does. If they were shooting someone on the streets, it was mafia that was armed and resisting.

P.s. apart from also having border guarding under their authority.

What do you mean "you people"

police forces are death squads

t. Overdrammatic anarkiddie who can't into imageboard interface

Materialist posts, comrades! xD

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Why does he have a purse in his prison cell

NOBODY supported the NKVD
the NKVD held their guns and bayonets POINTED at the red army

The NKVD frequently terrorized the proletariat as well and the leadership of the NKVD is wholly to blame for famine, not stalin.
They were corrupt with separate interests and had no loyalty to the motherland.

HOWEVER, Do not blame Stalin exclusively for what the NKVD did.
To be honest, stalin really had no control/idea what the NKVD was doing for the most part, he was more concerned with the war.

Okay the NKD were Red Oprichniki I am sure of it now.

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Every State will need someone to do the dirty jobs. It's as simple as that.

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Military counterintelligence was SMERSH, not NKVD. They dealt with routing troops and deserters too, as any service like their wood.

I think he's retarded too, and I'm a Communist
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