MVD Return to Stalinist Methods in Russia
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan surveys the revival of the MVD concept in Moscow as Pravda and Izvestia announce MOOP will be the new Ministry of Internal Affairs. The piece links security police expansion, crime drive, youth hooliganism, and anti-Soviet literature with a possible return to Stalinist methods.
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MVD
Czechoslovakia
Kremlin
Ministerstvo Vnu'trennikh del
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Lavrenty P. Beria
Beria
Stalin
Moscow
Ministry For the Protection
MOGP
Nikolai Shchelokov
Leonid Brezhniv
Pravda
Izvestia
MOOP
Communist Party
Young Communist League
Russia
Today in History highlights and key events
On this date December 6, 1968, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States after Japan's Pearl Harbor attack. Notable past events include Indiana becoming the 19th state in 1816, Louis Napoleon elected in 1848, Edward VIII’s abdication in 1936, Mussolini’s withdrawal from the League in 1937, and Rockefeller Jr offer for UN HQ in 1944. Kenya's independence marked ten years ago.
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