Posted on 02/22/2006 7:35:45 AM PST by libstripper
When Nikita Khrushchev died in 1971, I was still a girl, but I remember him well.
We used to visit him on the weekends on his farm at Petrovo Dalnee, about 30 miles outside of Moscow. I would work with him among the tomatoes or beehives. Although to me he was my kindly old great-grandfather, my family assured me that he was a great man, a world leader, a liberator -- someone I should be proud of.
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KGB is a direct decendent of the CPSU. Yes, it is communist.
Was it reformed after Reagan?
NO. Look at Putin's actions. It shows that the KGB NEVER reformed.
Putin has linked espionage to NGO funding. That is a very smart move.
"KGB is a direct decendent of the CPSU. Yes, it is communist."
Where are you getting your history books? This is what they're teaching at universities these days?
Little history lesson for you. The KGB was the Soviet version of the CIA/FBI combined with a nice helping of the Gestapo thrown in. It did NOT descend from the CPSU, it was subordinate to it, as were all other government agencies. The CPSU was the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - a descendent of the Bolshevik party (Workers and Peasants Party).
The KGB started out as the Ch.K (Cheka - Emergency Committee) established by the Polish Communist "Iron" Felix Drzhensky under Lenin's orders. It's evolution was:
Ch.K (Cheka)
OGPU
NKVD
MGB
KGB
After the Soviet Union imploded, Yeltsin disbanded the KGB and created two new agencies:
1.) FSB - the Russian equivalent to the FBI
2.) SVR - The Russian equivalent to the CIA
Under Yeltsin's orders no government agencies were to be formally tied to any political parties AND agency workers were NOT required to declare party membership. A HUGE difference from the commie days.
Then, by that logic, all KGB members should have never been allowed to touch the new Russian security organs. Looks like that did not happen.
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