Okhrana

Rarity: Uncommon

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History and politics

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What Wikipedia says

The Department for the Protection of Public Safety and Order, usually called the Guard Department and commonly abbreviated in modern English sources as the Okhrana, was a secret police force of the Russian Empire.

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