Daily Quiz for January 27, 2009

NKVD. The Soviet Union’s secret police organization?the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs?was better known as the NKVD. The NKVD came into existence in 1934, replacing the State Political Administration, or GPU. The GPU had formerly been known as the Cheka. During World War II there were several reorganizations of the NKVD, out of which grew the MGB, or Ministry of State Security. The MGB evolved into the KGB in 1954.