OGPU

or Og·pu

[ og-poo ]

noun

1. (in the U.S.S.R.) the government's secret-police organization (1923–1934).

Ogpu

/ ˈɒɡpuː /

noun

1. the Soviet police and secret police from 1923 to 1934

Word History and Origins

Origin of OGPU¹

< Russian Ógpu, for Obʾʾedinënnoe gosudárstvennoe politícheskoe upravlénie Unified State Political Directorate

Word History and Origins

Origin of OGPU¹

C20: from Russian O ( byedinyonnoye ) g ( osudarstvennoye ) p ( oliticheskoye ) u ( pravleniye ) United State Political Administration

Example Sentences

The OGPU's functions were later transferred to the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, which carried out the worst of Stalin's repression.

From Reuters

Moura would surely not have bothered with this deception if two years earlier she had confessed to being a regular visitor to the Soviet Union in the pay of OGPU.

From The Guardian

Almost from its inception as an instrument of "revolutionary justice" following the Bolshevik revolution, the Soviet secret police, known successively as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB and, since 1954, the KGB, has been synonymous with terror and coercion.

From Time Magazine Archive

The system of commissars and political instructors, which extends down through the army command to company level, is Chekist, and popularly called so, though the official name has changed many times �OGPU, GPU, NKVD, MGB, MVD.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to Mrs. Trotsky, her son was at first jailed for several months, then given work in a factory where he could be accused of "committing sabotage," then clapped back into jail for schooling by the Ogpu prior to his forthcoming trial.

From Time Magazine Archive