Okhrana
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The Department for the Protection of Public Safety and Order, usually called the Guard Department and commonly abbreviated in modern English sources as the Okhrana, was a secret police force of the Ru
Okhrana group photograph in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1905
Secret police
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Secret police are police, intelligence or security agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, ideological or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizatio
Okhrana
…the Protection of Public Safety and Order, usually called the Guard Department and commonly abbreviated in modern English sources as the Okhrana, was a secret police force of the Russian Empire. Created in 1880, it was a part of the Imperial police department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in the late…
A machine used by the East German Ministry for State Security to re-glue envelopes after mail had been opened for examination