Clothing worn by NKVD in Gulag?

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Clothing worn by NKVD in Gulag?

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Post by Garuda » 27 Apr 2014, 21:45

I'm doing a small animation if possible.If let's say there were two NKVD members interrogating prisoners in the Gulag,what would they be wearing?A uniform,plain clothes or some sort of winter wear?It would be helpful if someone can include a pic. :)

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Re: Clothing worn by NKVD in Gulag?

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Post by zhangyawei » 02 Jul 2014, 12:57

These pics maybe helpful to you.
Photograph of an NKVD execution squad in 1936..jpg
Photograph of an NKVD execution squad in 1936..jpg (17.04 KiB) Viewed 901 times
Matvei Davidovich Berman(center of shaded square):head of the GULAG Soviet prison camp system from 1932 to 1937.jpg
Matvei Davidovich Berman(center of shaded square):head of the GULAG Soviet prison camp system from 1932 to 1937.jpg (169.17 KiB) Viewed 901 times
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Re: Clothing worn by NKVD in Gulag?

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Post by James A Pratt III » 31 Jul 2014, 23:15

The book "Uniforms of the Soviet Union 1918-1945" has a number of pictures of NKVD uniforms ect.

The book "Terrorism: From Robespierre to Arafat" has a drawing of a Gulag camp with a couple of guards in it.

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Re: Clothing worn by NKVD in Gulag?

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Post by Garuda » 03 Aug 2014, 09:58

Oops.Just discovered that the The NKVD was dissolved in 1946.My animation is set in the 60s so I cannot use the NKVD for the story line.

Who would do the interrogations if there were no more NKVD?The KGB?Or just regular prison guards?
What would the clothing of the interrogators look like in a 1960s gulag setting?

Edited:Sorry for getting off topic.I just realized the topic shouldn't go further than 1945.by the time I realized,it was a little too late.

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Re: Clothing worn by NKVD in Gulag?

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Post by ML59 » 03 Aug 2014, 12:21

NKVD was replaced by MGB: Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoj Bezopasnosti.

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Post by Art » 03 Aug 2014, 13:31

ML59 wrote:NKVD was replaced by MGB: Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoj Bezopasnosti.
by MVD actually. In 1946 a more traditional ministry replaced "people's commissariat" Accordingly NKGB was renamed MGB and NKVD->MVD. It was no more than a change of letters.

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Post by ML59 » 03 Aug 2014, 14:24

Sorry for misunderstanding. Wasn't it in 1946?

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Post by Art » 03 Aug 2014, 15:03

Corrected.

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