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The 16 pages that link to NKVD, each with the reason it gives.

• Joseph StalinRelated: Its secret police enforced arrests, interrogations, executions, and forced-labor sentences.

• Great PurgeRelated: Its personnel carried out arrests, interrogations, executions, and camp deportations.

• Katyn massacreRelated: Its officers carried out the executions on orders from the Soviet leadership.

• KGBRelated: Its security functions formed part of the institutional history inherited by later agencies.

• Lavrentiy BeriaBroader topic: Beria led the NKVD from 1938 to 1945, directing a vast apparatus of repression.

• Deportation of the Crimean TatarsRelated: NKVD troops organized and carried out the deportation under Lavrentiy Beria's direction.

• Moscow TrialsRelated: The NKVD conducted interrogations and helped produce the confessions presented in court.

• Great TerrorRelated: The NKVD organized arrests, interrogations, executions, and deportations during the terror.

• ChekaRelated: The NKVD later inherited functions and personnel from earlier security agencies.

• Deportation of the Chechens and IngushRelated: NKVD forces carried out the arrests, assembly, and transport.

• Anthony BluntRelated: The NKVD organized Blunt’s recruitment and handled his early espionage.

• Population transfer in the Soviet UnionRelated: Its personnel organized and enforced many deportation operations.

• Isaac BabelRelated: The NKVD arrested Babel in 1939 and executed him the following year.

• Vasily BlyukherRelated: The NKVD arrested and interrogated Blyukher before his death in custody.

• Mass killings under communist statesRelated: It organized arrests, executions, and deportations in several major Soviet campaigns.

• Ramón MercaderRelated: Mercader's assassination mission was organized by Soviet state security.