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State Defense Committee

Powerful body in the Soviet government during World War II State Defense CommitteeГосударственный комитет обороныAll ministry seals of the Soviet Union used the USSR coat of armsAgency overviewFormed30 June 1941Preceding agencyDefense CommitteeDissolved4 September 1945Jurisdiction USSRHeadquartersMoscow, Russian SFSRAgency executivesJoseph Stalin, ChairmanVyacheslav Molotov, Deputy ChairmanParent agencyAll-Union Supreme Soviet The State Defense Committee (Russian: Государственный комитет обороны (ГКО), romanized: Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet oborony (GKO)) was an extraordinary organ of state power in the Soviet Union during World War II with complete state power in the country.

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