the NKVD and the NKGB were converted to ministries and redubbed the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and the Ministry for State Security (MGB). The MGB and MVD merged again in 1953, orchestrated by Lavrentiy Beria, who was then arrested and executed. The KGB took on the mantle of the NKGB/MGB and, in 1954, broke off from the reformed MVD.

Functions of the MGB

The MGB essentially inherited

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