The Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property (abbreviation: OBKhSS, ) was the

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. It was responsible for the regulation of

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laws combating theft of property in the organizations and institutions of state commerce, consumer, industrial and individual co-operatives, savings-banks and procurement agencies; it also acted against

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and

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. The

People's Commissar for Internal Affairs The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (, ), abbreviated as NKVD (; ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) secre ...

Nikolai Yezhov Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov ( rus, Николай Иванович Ежов, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ (j)ɪˈʐof; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940), also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet Chekism, secret police official under Joseph Stalin who ...

, established the OBKhSS as a department of the Main Police Department of the

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (, ), abbreviated as NKVD (; ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) se ...

of the

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on March 16, 1937 in Order of the People's Commissar No. 0018. From 1946 to 1991 the organisation operated under the authority of the

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(MVD) of the

. successor-organisations of the OBKhSS - with similar functions in the

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- are the of the

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, OBEP - the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the MVD and the DEB - Department for Economic Security ( of the MVD.

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File:ОБХСС.JPG, Medal marking 50 years of the OBKhSS of the MVD in the USSR - 1987

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