They’re slime.
archive materials show a significant number of criminal cases were based on factual evidence.” ............................... i.e. calling Stalin and idiot, reading the Saturday evening post, listening to the BBC and radio Berlin, talking to US citizens who volunteered to help the Soviets and find work for themselves. Yeah, there were millions of guilty people sent to work in labor camps for a bowl of potato soup and a piece of bread if the reached their quota. No work, no eat, no live. Left as frozen meat in the frozen tundra. Many died from deceases of the mind which left holes in their skulls. The only difference between the Soviets and the Nazis was they destroyed all their records, leaving many questions unanswered, and NO REPARATIONS for any of the victims or their families. Life was always tough for the everyday Russian. I guess they miss all that?
Felix Dzerzhinsky was one mean SOB, but an interesting study in power and building an effective organization..
“There is no such thing as an innocent man. There are merely men who have not been questioned competently”.
I wish people didn’t feel the same way about our own secret police, the FBI. Internal security organs tend to be well regarded no matter how evil.
No need to be oversensitive. Honor part of function of security organisation doesn’t mean “honor the ideology.”
Reinhard Gehlen worked for Hitler in Nazi era. he worked for CIA and became the leader of BND of West Germany in Cold War era. Anything wrong with it?