We have facebook and myspace and twitter and a million other applications and media outlets that have handled this job quite well.
This is simple mythmaking... Things go to crap.... Ya, I did that... If the KGB was so frikin effective, why has their empire scattered like bird$hit in the wind...?
Putin is still there.... and runs Russia and most of the Former USSR. And, he controls, among other things, the KPRF as well as his own party.