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Government Delegation for Poland

In February 1945, the Government Delegate, most members of the Council of National Unity, and the Home Army Commander-in-Chief were invited by Soviet General Ivan Sierov to a conference on their eventual inclusion in the Soviet-backed Provisional Government.

Ivan Serov

Nikita Petrov, "The First Chairman of the KGB: Ivan Serov" (Pervy predsedatel KGB : Ivan Serov), Moscow: Materik (2005) ISBN 5-85646-129-0

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Serov became the Ukrainian Commissar of the NKVD in 1939, and from this point onwards he played a major role in many of the actions of the Soviet secret police in World War II, helping to organize the deportation of the Chechens and the peoples of the Baltic States, becoming Beria's primary lieutenant in 1941.

Serov

Ivan Serov (1905–1990), head of the KGB in 1954–1958 and of the GRU in 1958–1963

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