NKVD-MIA USSR IN POST-WAR (1945-1953): FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
The article examines the main trends associated with the reorganization of the central apparatus of the NKVD of the USSR (since 1946 - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR) in the post-war period (1945-1953). The relevant legal acts that determined the organizational and SHAPE \* MERGEFORMAT legal foundations of the NKVD-Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, scientific works on the stated problems are analyzed. It is noted that in connection with the end of the Great Patriotic War in the USSR, organizational transformations began in state bodies and institutions, due to the need to switch to a peaceful track. In this context, a feature is revealed. With regard to the NKVD-Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, which consisted in the fact that from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, many power structures were transferred from the Ministry of State Security (Ministry of State Security) of the USSR (police, troops, anti-bandit units, etc.). As a result, the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, de facto, turned into a kind of economic department that manages cheap labor imprisoned in a variety of national economic facilities. Hypotheses are presented with an explanation for such a decision, which was canceled only after Stalin's death.