formed, with the RSFSR as its largest member. The GPU became the OGPU (Joint State Political Directorate), under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. The NKVD of the RSFSR retained control of the militsiya and various other responsibilities.

In 1934, the NKVD of the RSFSR was transformed into an all-USSR security force, the NKVD (which the Communist Party of the Soviet Union leaders