Soviet Militia

Militsiya (Russian: милиция; IPA: [mʲɪˈlʲitsɨjə], Belarusian: міліцыя, Estonian: miilits, Armenian: միլիցիա [militsʰia], Kyrgyz: милиция, Latvian: milicija, Lithuanian: milicija, Polish: milicja, Romanian: miliția, Serbian Cyrillic: милиција, Croatian: milicija, Slovene: milica, Tajik: милитсия, Ukrainian: міліція, Uzbek: militsiya or милиция), often confused with militia, was the name of the police forces in the Soviet Union and several Warsaw Pact countries, as well as in the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia, and the term is still commonly used in some of the individual former Soviet republics such as Belarus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, as well as in the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria.