Explanation:
Empowering the police to monitor citizens at all times
The first police shortly created after the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, would be an instrument to be used in a totalitarian command
The secret police of Stalin NKVD was a force that drew later under Stalin the totalitarian policy most scandalous for carrying out Stalin's Purges.
The secret police was mostly used for securing that Stalin would stay in power indefinitely,
The alleged national security and their aims were far beyond and contributed for cruel work camps, famines and social engineering.
They wanted to create conditions for a new socialist system to born.
Stalin also used the NKVD for eliminating close people to him when he became suspicious.
Periodically he will use systematically "cleaning lists" for setting a quota of people to be killed.
Through extracting gold and silver from mines in their own country or from colonial land, as well as selling more than it bought from other countries, the mercantilists believed they could leverage the trade to the benefit of the national wealth of their country. Mercantilism's basic principle was that a nation's strength came from its wealth, so, therefore, making themselves exporters of products or goods gave them that competitive advantage over other nations.
