BAL397733 The GPU strikes the counter-revolutionary saboteur on the head (colour litho) by Deni, Viktor Nikolaevich (1893-1946); State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow; (add.info.: The State Political Directorate was the secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1934; it was initially known under the Russian abbreviation GPU for \'Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie of the NKVD of the RSFSR\'; Joseph Stalin (1879-1953);); Russian, out of copyright.