Secret police
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A secret police force is an agency most often used in dictatorships to scare people living under a dictatorship into agreeing with the dictator's policies. Not all dictatorships, however, use a secret police force. Fidel Castro's Cuba and Mao Zedong's China were able to maintain a dictatorship without using secret police.
Historical secret police agencies[change]
| Secret police agency | Nation | Existed from | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| NKVD | U.S.S.R. | 1934-1946 | Joseph Stalin |
| Gestapo | Greater German Reich | 1933-1945 | Adolf Hitler |
| OVRA | Kingdom of Italy | 1927-1943 | Benito Mussolini |
