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{{Important}}{{Evil_Organization|Box title = Evil organization|Image = Emblema NKVD.svg|fullname = English:The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs Russian:(Народный комиссариат внутренних дел: Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del)|alias = No information|origin = USSR|foundation = July 10, 1934|headquarters = Moscow, Soviet Union|dissolution = March 15, 1946|commanders = [[Genrikh Yagoda]] (1934 - 1936)<br>[[Nikolai Yezhov]] (1936 - 1938)<br>[[Lavrentiy Beria]] (1938 - 1945)<br>[[Sergei Kruglov]] (1945 - 1946)|agents = [[Vyacheslav Menzhinsky]]<br>[[Felix Dzerzhinsky]]<br>[[Iosef Marcianovich Bartasiunas]]<br>[[Yakov Agranov]]<br>[[Mikhail Frinovsky]]<br>[[Vsevolod Balitsky]]<br>[[Sergey Spigelglas]]<br>[[Leonid Zakovsky]]<br>[[Vsevolod Merkulov]]<br>[[Pavel Sudoplatov]]
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[[Americophobia]]<br>|type of villains = Oppressive Secret Police|type of villain=Oppressive Secret Police}}The '''People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs''' (Народный комиссариат внутренних дел: Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), abbreviated '''NKVD''' (НКВД About this soundlisten (help·info)) or '''Narkomvnudel''' (Наркомвнудел), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.

Established in 1917 as NKVD of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the agency was originally tasked with conducting regular police work and overseeing the country's prisons and labor camps. It was disbanded in 1930, with its functions being dispersed among other agencies, only to be reinstated as an all-union ministry in 1934.

The functions of the [[OGPU]] (the [[secret police]] organization) were transferred to the NKVD in 1934, giving it a monopoly over law enforcement activities that lasted until the end of [[World War II]]. During this period, the NKVD included both ordinary public order activities, as well as secret police activities. The NKVD is known for its role in political repression and for carrying out the Great Purge under [[Joseph Stalin]]. It was led by [[Genrikh Yagoda]], [[Nikolai Yezhov]] and [[Lavrentiy Beria]].

The NKVD undertook mass extrajudicial executions of untold numbers of citizens, and conceived, populated and administered the Gulag system of [[concentration camp]]s. Their agents were responsible for the repression of the wealthier peasantry, as well as the mass deportations, [[ethnic cleansing]], and even [[genocide]] of entire nationalities to uninhabited regions of the country. They oversaw the protection of Soviet borders and espionage (which included political assassinations), and enforced Soviet policy in communist movements and puppet governments in other countries, most notably the repression and massacres in Poland.

In March 1946 all People's Commissariats were renamed to Ministries, and the NKVD became the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The [[KGB]] would succeed the NKVD as the secret police of the Soviet Union.