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| - In short, the duties and purpose of the NKVD can be summed up in a common expression used to encompass the Commissariat, as well as it's unofficial slogan: "The Sword and the Shield." The Commissariat is the fist of the Party. The republic's most direct form of power and control. Although technically under "control" and "jurisdiction" of the Red Army and military branch, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs is inherently political, and operates either directly under orders of the political branch, but in most cases as a "free spirit". The NKVD is designed to operate, when needed, as a reserve military force to uphold the supremacy and power of the Communist Party of Erusea, and holds, at it's descretion, the power to declare martial law whenever deemed necessary. The most common cases being "damage control", the speciality of the First and Third Directorates, and when forcing military units, administrative districts, or other detachments into compliance. The NKVD is the only detachment that is permitted to operate outside of the Soviet Constitution and Soviet Law, and when needed operates as a completely autonomous "vanguard party" under central direction of the party to conduct any and all duties it is handed to the best of it's abilities, relentlessly, and regardless of consequences. The NKVD is controlled chiefly via the Central Committee in many cases, assigned to over-see many official tasks, but for the most part runs as an autonomous body with the super-vision of the state, under control with it's current chief-of-staff, or chairman, performing a wide-variety of duties on its own accord and governance The NKVD serves a wide variety of duties for the state, such as internal security, internal and foreign affairs, intelligence operations, party investigations, special operations, and information archive. It accomplishes its tasks through a set of divisions within the Commissariat, known as "directorates". Each directorate serves a specific need, or range of needs, and specializes on the related tasks it's been assigned to. The current directorates are as follows:
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