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Topic ID: 141
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#1, RE: OWaW: The Fall of Petrograd
Posted by zojojojo on Dec-22-17 at 08:26 PM
In response to message #0
>the Okhrana - The Tsarist government's Department for
>Protecting Public Safety and Order, proving that the Russians had a
>talent for coming up with colorfully euphemistic names for brutal
>secret police long before the Bolsheviks came to power.

i thought it was the Tsarina's guard, since "okhrana" roughly translates as "protection" and is often used to refer to someone's guard detail...


-Z


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