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Thema: NKVD Shashka M1927 (https://www.deutsches-blankwaffenforum.de/topic.php?id=4632)

Thus modified shashkas were issued to the NKVD functionaries and the РKМ peasant militia formed on July 10, 1934. The NKVD (НКВД – Народный комиссариат внутренних дел) became a common equivalent of the crimes committed by the Soviets.