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Stalin's Secret Police: Negative Effects On The Average Citizens

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Stalin's secret police had a negative effect on the average citizens. The name that was given to Stalin's secret police was the NKVD and some of the negative effects they had on citizens was that they were responsible for a lot of deaths, they caused lots of fear for the citizens throughout the country and the NKVD would cause lots of pain for the citizens and their families by sending them to labour camps. The main function of the NKVD was to assassinate anybody that Stalin ordered them to.1 In the book, Animal Farm, it clearly shows that Napoleon who represents Stalin, calls the dogs who represent the secret police to assassinate whoever Stalin wanted killed. “Napoleon stood up and, casting a peculiar sidelong look at Snowball, uttered a

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