The State Political Administration or GRU (Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie).
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
On January of 1922 the Bolshevik government decided that reform was needed and the Cheka was competely restructured and renamed as the GPU(State Political Administration). Dzerzhinsky remained in office as chairman eventhough the GPU was not as powerful as its predecessor and its powers were greatly reduced, this was not to last. Within the relative short time span of a year, the GPU gained all the power that the Cheka had enjoyed and as a matter of fact the GPU became more powerful than the Cheka by extending its powers. In 1923 the OGPU(1923-1924...United State Political Administration) was created and replaced the GPU, the OGPU's jurisdiction covered all of the Soviet Union and thus enjoyed more power than its predecessor. In 1926 Dzerzhinsky died and was succeeded by his deputy Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky.
Having so much power at its disposal, the OGPU was the perfect vehicle for Iosef Vissarionovich Dzugashvili, or better known as Josef Stalin ("Man of Steel"), to ride into the annals of history as the worst tyrant of all times. His killing of millions by starvation, genocide and by other atrocities most likely drove him to madness.
The OGPU was ruthless in enforcing Stalin's policy of collectivization and dispossesing the peasants(Gulaks) from their wealth, 300,000 Kulak families were deported and between 5-6 million people died of famine. The OGPU was not only ruthless and this manner but also in hunting down those who Mensheviks who resisted the Revolution, in 1923 mock trials were organized for the Mensheviks to enforce the OGPU's power and cement the fact that disobedience to the State would not be tolerated. By 1931 the OGPU gained so much power that it was running the Soviet Union's police force, had its own army and force-labour camps. Networks of spies and informers reported from farms, factories and offices of any behaviour deemed dangerous by the State; the lives of the citizens of the Soviet Union was basicly at the hands of those who interpreted what was correct and incorrect method(s) of acting and thinking. Eventhough Stalin led his backward nation out of the ashes let us never forget that he used the bodies of millions to fuel the fire and lead his country into industrialization. One of OGPU's most ambitious covert action was an attempt to launch a revolution in Germany which was approved by the Politburo. The German Revolution was to begin in the early hours of Ocotober 23, 1923 but it failed because it had no working-classs support; after this failure the Revolution concentrated on Asia.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
On January of 1922 the Bolshevik government decided that reform was needed and the Cheka was competely restructured and renamed as the GPU(State Political Administration). Dzerzhinsky remained in office as chairman eventhough the GPU was not as powerful as its predecessor and its powers were greatly reduced, this was not to last. Within the relative short time span of a year, the GPU gained all the power that the Cheka had enjoyed and as a matter of fact the GPU became more powerful than the Cheka by extending its powers. In 1923 the OGPU(1923-1924...United State Political Administration) was created and replaced the GPU, the OGPU's jurisdiction covered all of the Soviet Union and thus enjoyed more power than its predecessor. In 1926 Dzerzhinsky died and was succeeded by his deputy Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky.
Having so much power at its disposal, the OGPU was the perfect vehicle for Iosef Vissarionovich Dzugashvili, or better known as Josef Stalin ("Man of Steel"), to ride into the annals of history as the worst tyrant of all times. His killing of millions by starvation, genocide and by other atrocities most likely drove him to madness.
The OGPU was ruthless in enforcing Stalin's policy of collectivization and dispossesing the peasants(Gulaks) from their wealth, 300,000 Kulak families were deported and between 5-6 million people died of famine. The OGPU was not only ruthless and this manner but also in hunting down those who Mensheviks who resisted the Revolution, in 1923 mock trials were organized for the Mensheviks to enforce the OGPU's power and cement the fact that disobedience to the State would not be tolerated. By 1931 the OGPU gained so much power that it was running the Soviet Union's police force, had its own army and force-labour camps. Networks of spies and informers reported from farms, factories and offices of any behaviour deemed dangerous by the State; the lives of the citizens of the Soviet Union was basicly at the hands of those who interpreted what was correct and incorrect method(s) of acting and thinking. Eventhough Stalin led his backward nation out of the ashes let us never forget that he used the bodies of millions to fuel the fire and lead his country into industrialization. One of OGPU's most ambitious covert action was an attempt to launch a revolution in Germany which was approved by the Politburo. The German Revolution was to begin in the early hours of Ocotober 23, 1923 but it failed because it had no working-classs support; after this failure the Revolution concentrated on Asia.
Everybody's equal, But some more than others!
"Those who come to us with the sword - will be killed by the sword" - Alexander Nevski
"Those who come to us with the sword - will be killed by the sword" - Alexander Nevski
