Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy

A post stamp of the Russian Federation released in 2019 commemorating 100th Anniversary of the state institution

The Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy (Russian: Главное политическое управление Советской армии и Военно-морского флота СССР, romanized: Glavnoe politicheskoe upravlenie Sovietskoy armii i Voenno-morskogo flota SSSR) was the central military-political organ of administration in the Soviet Armed Forces in 1919 through 1991 and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The directorate was created at the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on the order of the Republic's Revolutionary Military Council No.674 of 18 April 1919 to implement political control in the Red Army and Fleet.[1]

  1. ^ Политическое управление Красной Армии. Центральный государственный архив Советской армии. В двух томах. Том 1. Путеводитель. 1991