NKVD Troop Badge (Знак НКВД)

👉 NKVD = Народный комиссариат внутренних дел
(People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs)

🔍 Description:
Several highly distinctive elements:
• 🗡️ Vertical sword → symbol of security / repression
• ⚒️ Hammer and sickle → Soviet power
• 🔥 Stylized red flames on each side
• 🔴 Enameled red background
• 🔤 “НКВД” inscription clearly visible
• ⚙️ Oval shape with striated relief
👉 The sword + NKVD = very strong visual signature → impossible to confuse with a classic military decoration.

🏛️ Historical context
Insignia created on July 10, 1934
The NKVD was:
• the predecessor of the KGB
• active primarily between 1934 and 1946
• responsible for:
- internal security
- intelligence
- Gulag camps
- political repression under Joseph Stalin
📌 It was a central organization in the Stalinist purges and Soviet state security.
📊 Number of items
👉 Contrary to official records:
• No reliable precise figures
• Limited and non-standardized production
• Several variations (units, periods, functions)

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