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Return of the MVD echoes Stalinist methods in Russia
Widespread talk in the 1968 Russian press about reviving the Ministry of Internal Affairs foreshadows a crackdown on crime and dissent. Pravda and Izvestia say MOOP will be the new MVD, expanding militia to stamp out theft embezzlement anti-Soviet literature and youth unrest linked to Czechoslovakia events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Ryan
MVD
Czechoslovakia
Kremlin
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Lavrenty P. Beria
Beria
Stalin
Mostow
MOOP
Nickolai Shchelokov
Leonid Brezhnin
Pravda
Izvestia
Young Communist League
Young Communist