State Political Directorate
Soviet national security agency (1922–1923)
State Political Directorate
The State Political Directorate (Russian: Государственное политическое управление, romanized: Gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie), abbreviated as GPU (ГПУ), was the secret police of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (RSFSR) from February 1922 to November 1923. It was the immediate successor of the Cheka, and was replaced by the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). The full official designation was the State Political Directorate (also State Political Administration) under the People's Commissariat for interior affairs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian: Государственное политическое управление при Народном комиссариaте внутренних дел РСФСР, romanized: Gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie pri Narodnom komissariate vnutrennikh del RSFSR; abbr. ГПУ при НКВД РСФСР, GPU pri NKVD RSFSR).
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