Secret Police

On the subject of secret police, I liked to use the NKVD, or the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.  During my time in power, the NKVD included the public police force, ran the Gulags, and the Main Directorate for State Security, the predecessor of the the KGB.  The main goal of the NKVD was to suppress an oppostion to the State and myself, Joseph Stalin.  Many of the dissenters caught by the NKVD were sent to the gulags where they belonged, or were executed.  Those who were dealt with by the NKVD were erased from Russian history, in short, they never existed.  The NKVD also used political assassinations to keep the peace in the great USSR.  The NKVD was by far one of my most effective tools in keeping myself in power.