Kgb History
The K.G.B./Secret Police
K.G.B agents hide in plain sight. They’re like leaves in a forest. This Russian secret police force act as watchdogs over their Russian higher-ups. The K.G.B., known as the C.I.A.’s counterpart, dates all the back to 1917 and have grown to be the largest foreign intelligence service in the world.
Origins and History of the K.G.B.
The origins of the K.G.B. go as far back as one-hundred years ago to 1917. One-hundred years ago what is known as the K.G.B. now was known as CHEKA which is an abbreviation for, in Russian, Chrezvychainaya Komissiya po Borbe s Kontrrevolutsiey i Sabotazhem which means in English, Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolutions and Sabotage. CHEKA was headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky and …show more content…
A week later, the phrase “combating profiteering” was also added to the CHEKA’s formal title. (J. Llewellyn et al, “The CHEKA” at Alpha History, http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/cheka/ 2014, accessed [21 May 2017]).
Upon its creation, CHEKA was only home to few hundred agents, but later it expanded to house more than one-hundred thousand agents. Under Dzershinsky’s rule CHEKA was ruthless, just as he was. They operated in a way that no other agency did, arresting whoever they chose to and doing so whenever they chose too. They became the poster child for secret police agencies in totalitarian states. Their methods are what struck fear into both citizens and enemies alike. These methods were carried down to the now known K.G.B.
Role of the …show more content…
was rather abrupt. The end of the K.G.B. was caused by a failed coup carried out by hard line communists, military officials, as well as the K.G.B. It was an attempt to avert new liberalized union treaty and return to old ways of old communists. The failed coup also meant the end of the communist party, and the fall of Soviet Russia. Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Parliament at the time, played the ant-coup role. He took the chance to promote both himself and Russia. He later demanded that Mikhail Gorbachev return as the Soviet president, but when Gorbachev returned from house arrest in Crimea, Yeltsin demonstrated that he was the more powerful leader by banning the communist party and seizing all of its property. The K.G.B. fell along with
K.G.B agents hide in plain sight. They’re like leaves in a forest. This Russian secret police force act as watchdogs over their Russian higher-ups. The K.G.B., known as the C.I.A.’s counterpart, dates all the back to 1917 and have grown to be the largest foreign intelligence service in the world.
Origins and History of the K.G.B.
The origins of the K.G.B. go as far back as one-hundred years ago to 1917. One-hundred years ago what is known as the K.G.B. now was known as CHEKA which is an abbreviation for, in Russian, Chrezvychainaya Komissiya po Borbe s Kontrrevolutsiey i Sabotazhem which means in English, Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolutions and Sabotage. CHEKA was headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky and …show more content…
A week later, the phrase “combating profiteering” was also added to the CHEKA’s formal title. (J. Llewellyn et al, “The CHEKA” at Alpha History, http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/cheka/ 2014, accessed [21 May 2017]).
Upon its creation, CHEKA was only home to few hundred agents, but later it expanded to house more than one-hundred thousand agents. Under Dzershinsky’s rule CHEKA was ruthless, just as he was. They operated in a way that no other agency did, arresting whoever they chose to and doing so whenever they chose too. They became the poster child for secret police agencies in totalitarian states. Their methods are what struck fear into both citizens and enemies alike. These methods were carried down to the now known K.G.B.
Role of the …show more content…
was rather abrupt. The end of the K.G.B. was caused by a failed coup carried out by hard line communists, military officials, as well as the K.G.B. It was an attempt to avert new liberalized union treaty and return to old ways of old communists. The failed coup also meant the end of the communist party, and the fall of Soviet Russia. Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Parliament at the time, played the ant-coup role. He took the chance to promote both himself and Russia. He later demanded that Mikhail Gorbachev return as the Soviet president, but when Gorbachev returned from house arrest in Crimea, Yeltsin demonstrated that he was the more powerful leader by banning the communist party and seizing all of its property. The K.G.B. fell along with