What Was The KGB And Why Was It So Feared?
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A recent British inquiry into the suspicious death of former KGB agent, Alexander Litvinenko, concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin had likely authorized his killing. While it is unclear whether these claims are true, the silencing of dissent is not out of character for the former Soviet security agency, the KGB. So, what exactly was the KGB, and why was it so feared in its time? Well, the KGB or the “Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti” was the Soviet Union’s security and foreign intelligence agency. It operated from 1954 to 1991. When the Soviet Union collapsed it was replaced by the FSK and then the FSB, in the new Russian Federation. Both have served similar security functions to the KGB. During its existence, unlike other country’s secur...
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A recent British inquiry into the suspicious death of former KGB agent, Alexander Litvinenko, concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin had likely authorized his killing. While it is unclear whether these claims are true, the silencing of dissent is not out of character for the former Soviet security agency, the KGB. So, what exactly was the KGB, and why was it so feared in its time? Well, the KGB or the “Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti” was the Soviet Union’s security and foreign intelligence agency. It operated from 1954 to 1991. When the Soviet Union collapsed it was replaced by the FSK and then the FSB, in the new Russian Federation. Both have served similar security functions to the KGB. During its existence, unlike other country’s secur...
