Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
|||
Line 116:
Cooperation between the NKVD and the [[Gestapo]]: In March, 1940 representatives of the NKVD and the Gestapo met for one week in [[Zakopane]], to coordinate the pacification of [[Poland]]; ''see [[Gestapo-NKVD Conferences|Gestapo–NKVD Conferences]]''. The Soviet Union delivered hundreds of German and Austrian Communists to the Gestapo, as unwanted foreigners, together with their documents.
During [[World War II]], NKVD units were used for rear area security, including stopping [[desertion]]. In liberated territory the NKVD and (later) NKGB carried out mass arrests, deportations, and executions. The targets included both collaborators with Germany and non-Communist [[resistance movement]]s such as the Polish [[Armia Krajowa]]. The NKVD also executed tens of thousands of [[NKVD massacres of prisoners|Polish political prisoners]] in 1939-1941, inter alia commiting [[Katyń massacre]].
The NKVD's [[intelligence (information gathering)|intelligence]] and ''[[special operations]]'' (''Inostranny Otdel'') unit organized overseas [[assassination]]s of ex-Soviet citizens and foreigners who were regarded as enemies of the USSR by [[Joseph Stalin|Josef Stalin]]. Among the officially confirmed victims of such plots were:
Line 140:
* Collection of detailed nuclear weapons design information from the U.S. and Britain.
* Disruption of several confirmed plots to assassinate Stalin.
* Estabilishment of later [[People's Republic of Poland]] communist parties and training activists, during and after [[World War II]]. First President of Poland, after war, was [[Bolesław Bierut]], an NKVD agent.
=== The NKVD and the Soviet economy ===
| |||