What is the KGB and Why is it so Feared?
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- With its predecessors including the Tsarist intelligence agencies, the Bolsheivk’s shield and sword and Stalin’s NKVD, the KGB was no ordinary service to the Soviet Union’s Communist Party. Knocking on doors, boots hammering down hallways, the omnipresent organisation did everything in its power to serve and protect the Soviet single party state. With sixteen directorates at its height, and widely known for its surveillance, espionage and interrogations, watch how the agency began, operated, and influenced our world not so long ago.
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Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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Andrew, Christopher. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. New York. Basic Books, 2001.
Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky. KGB: The Inside Story. New York. HarperCollins Publishers, 1990.
Andrew, Christopher, and Vasili Mitrokhin. The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. New York. Basic Books, 2005.
Shebarshin, Leonid. “Reflections on the KGB in Russia.” Economic and Political Weekly 28, no. 51 (1993): 2829-32.
White, Stephen, and Ol’Ga Kryshtanovskaya. “Public Attitudes to the KGB: A Research Note.” Europe-Asia Studies 45, no. 1 (1993): 169-75.
There is a story about an Egyptian Tomb being discovered when Nasser was President of Egypt. The Egyptian Archaeologists were unsure of the age of the tomb, and the visiting Soviet KGB offered to take a look at it. The next day, the KGB informed the Egyptians that the mummy was 3,247 years old. When asked how they knew, the KGB simply said, "The mummy confessed."
It got scared back to life, you couldn't blame him
@Don't Read My Profile Photo ok
@Don't Read My Profile Photo *gently dabs on you*
😄 good one
lolllll
A CIA spy, an MI6 spy and a KGB spy were bragging about how secret their work is, the CIA spy says "my work is so secret only me, my boss and my co-worker know what I'm doing, after that, the MI6 spy says "My work is so secret, only me and my boss know what I'm doing", after that the KGB spy says "My work is so secret, I don't even know what I'm doing!"
In reality, the CIA didn't know what they were doing.
MI6 was infiltrated by the KGB so partially working for them.
And the KGB knew everything.
Oh,. My,.
Here: new job assignment. ... ... ... Shoot the entity that reads this Less it be the assigner or me: supereme leader. PS. That means you to
In comes the Danish spy, claiming: Nobody even knows, I exist...
Lol
I had a Russian math professor who grew up in a small hunting village near the USSR/Mongolian border. When she was a girl, she would hunt but was only allowed to go a few miles out in the forest but never past the lake. Her father and all the other adults in the village had stories about there was a ghost who haunted the lake, and if the ghost caught you that you would never be seen again. When the USSR fell and she revisited the village she found out there was an outpost used by the KGB to monitor transmissions coming out of China after the SIno-Soviet split.
OMG
You from Mongolia?
What happened to the ghost?
@@xFlared there was no ghost. the KGB probably took over people who accidentally saw their outpost. think of it like people disaapearing in area 51 in U.S.
She was probably from Buryat republic?
In the late 80's as the cold war was winding down, a western Economist was sent to the Soviet Union to report on the situation of the market. Gorbachev allowed this, but only with an English-speaking KGB agent to escort the economist around.
The first stop was a shoe store where the shelves were bare.
the economist spoke allowed as he wrote, which was his habit "Shoe shortage."
The agent is annoyed and raises an eyebrow, but says nothing.
The next stop is a bakery and once again, most of the shelves have nothing but a dusting of flour and stale crumbs.
"Bread shortage" the economist says as he writes. Once again the agent is quite irritated but merely huffs a bit.
Then the pair visit a butcher and behind the glass there is little more than a few pitiful looking cuts of mostly sinew and bone.
"Meat shortage" the economist says. Finally the KGB agent has had enough. He bellows strongly:
"Leeson here Amerikanski! In the old days, ve vould have shot you for you eensolence! "
The economist opens his note pad:
"Bullet shortage."
I'm laughing out loud😂not what I expected 😂😂😂😂
Good joke
Lol
My dad visited the Soviet Union in the 1980’s as part of a school trips and remembers the party having “minders”
LOLLL
Can we take the time to applaud the narrator for actually taking the time to name all 15 Soviet Republics.
Not you
He mispronounced a few states
@@bobafett_8922 Im surprised on his reading of the full KGB name
@Don't Read My Profile Photo I read it.
@@camdenmiller7369 He did quite well considering that he's unlikely to be a Russian speaker.
Citizen: “I feel like I’m being watched…”
🖼 🔈“Nyet, Comrade! Go back to sleep!”
👀👀👀👀
Citizen: *goes back to sleep and forgets his dumb question*
🖼🔈:*happy KGB noices*
its spelled Net "Нет"
Do you know that the name Marlena in the soviet union was in the honor of Marx and Lenin?
@@user-qh1ls4to5o and in English, it's spelled nyet. 🤦🏼♂️
Shortly after the end of WWII, my great grandma used to work is a shoe factory near Riga (It was Latvian SSR then). Her work was to glue the pre-made parts together. Decades later someone bought the building and and found a room with a large device used to listen to phone calls that was later confirmed to have been used by the KGB.
Another story' from your relatives? That was really interisting
Back in my day (today) NSA and Is rael spied on you and me ...
I'm from Latvia good one bro
@@cinemaparadiso5402 Is rael owns US politicians
@@cinemaparadiso5402
Everyone spies on everybody. Your anti semitic hysteria has no place here
As a Bangladeshi I knew the Soviets aided in the Liberation which was just another proxy war for them. But I had no idea they had their fingers so deep in the Political Leadership. Fascinating stuff.
Joy Bangla!
"The flags may be different, but the methods are all the same."
*Viktor Reznov, Vorkuta, USSR, 1963*
that says a lot
@@nolangonzales8534 that says a lot for pretty much every wars on Earth including the current war in Ukraine. I mean who's to say that there aren't any Russian lieutenant captured and brainwashed by Ukrainian intelligence into believing that he's part of Ukrainian volunteer forces to be used against the Russian invading forces consisted of his former superiors and fellow countrymen.
MI6, KGB, MSS, CIA, Mossad, and etc. They are all the same.
He was talking about the intelligence agencies of the world, not just Russia. R&AW, CIA, SIS, Mossad, KGB, ISI, all of them.
“Governments may change, but the lies stay the same.”
-James Bond, Goldeneye
Fun Fact: there is nothing as "ex-KGB"
Well now they’re the FSB. The origins of the organization goes all the way back to the Okhrana in the days of Tsar Alexander III, and they will likely remain in power as long as some form of Russia exists.
Yes it is because they dont have enough money to pay spies and as I say to some stupid people just the winners write history and America now control whit it Puppet states and Spies all the word
@@Mayakran FSB now is wack
Exactly. Once a Chekist, always a Checkist.
@@Mayakran I also consider the FSB to be a mere continuation of the KGB which was, at base, a continuation of the Okhrana under new administration.
One of the most terrifying scenes in "The Death of Stalin" was Beria walking through the interrogation rooms whilst people are screaming "long live Stalin" just before being shot. Really chilling.
This is the NKVD, not the KGB
@@Anonymous-qj3sf Different name, same method.
Beria was a monster
@@ryangearpermer241 No, the NKVD was worse
@@Anonymous-qj3sf Ostensibly the same thing.
I love how the title is "Why they are feared" instead of "why they were feared". Because you know FSB is KGB under a different name
The KGB was much stronger than the modern FSB
NKVD, then KGB, now FSB
Small correction - at 4:07, you say that the Prague Spring began in 1969. It actually started much earlier and ended in August 1968 when the Warsaw pact armies invaded Czechoslovakia, which marked the beginning of the period we now call "normalisation"
And at 4:25 they have the Czechoslovak flat upside down
Good catch, I missed that. I only noticed the flags upside down.
the reason Jaromir Jagr wears #68
Not in 1969 but in 1968
"Knock knock."
"Who's the-?" *slap*
"We will ask the questions!"
Ding Dong
"The KGB will wait for no one"
KGB: *DID I HEAR ANTI-COMMUNISM SENTIMENTS?*
"Ve ask ze kvestions!" - Gruber from "allo allo"
So there's a story:
Three agencies went to find the white rabbit in a forest. The first one was the FBI who investigated for months and finally reported that the rabbit had escaped.
The second one was the ( GIGN or CIA I guess ) who went in came out and burned down the entire forest to kill the rabbit.
The third one was the KGB who went in and came out 2 hours later: with them was a bear who admitted that he was the rabbit.
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My great grandpa, returning from the Polish II corps under British command. Came back to Poland and because he had been in the II corps, he got spied on by the kgb, had to bury anything that showed his past life as a Polish Soldier. He fought in 3 wars and died in 1972. He fought in WW1, Polish-Soviet war and, WW2
Greetings from Estonia my polish brother.
Fun fact❗
KGB still exists.
The security service in Belarus inherited the Soviet name and is still officially KGB.
You're welcome.
Russian FSB is pretty much KGB.
@@wisp6826
What I meant is just the name it retained from the Soviet past - KGB.
@@0bserver146 I know. What I am saying is that FSB is pretty much KGB in all but name.
Most of Belarus imagery is directly lifted from its time as a Soviet Republic just sans hammer and sickle
@@zachhoward9099 without* hammer and sickle.
You are french
the reason they are feared is that you never knew you're on their list, for reasons unknown, it can be as ridiculous as someone turned you in to the authorities because your neighbor's cousin Vadim secretly sold half pack of opened western cigarette to a random person, which the cigarette allegedly came from your rubbish bin as the neighbor claimed.
who did the KGB put on their list for such a reason? Got any names or is this an urban legend?
@@wolfswinkel8906 it's probably an expression about how something so farfetched can get you in trouble.
@@NoName-wl5uo I'm looking for some examples of this high handedness and all I'm seeing is selling state secrets to the CIA and MI6- an offence which these two agencies are famous for punishing. The way OP makes this allegation of impunity without any facts to back them up is how public opinion is shaped and influenced by falsehoods.
VADIM BLYAT!
@@wolfswinkel8906 did you read it literally? I didn't.
There’s a far longer lineage that entities like the KGB and OGPU come from. Some of the methods used by the KGB against protest groups were also conducted by the Tsar’s secret agents: the Okhrana in the 1880/90s
And before the Okrana there were the Oprichniki which could also be considered Ivan the Terrible's heavy handed and less-than-secret police. As for more modern Russia/USSR/Russia I see the security organs of each merely a continuation of the previous regime under a new name/initials.
@@harrietharlow9929 лучше так, чем диктатура "ЛГБТ идеологии и сумасшедшей толерантности", - белых европейских женщин насилуют, а вам запрещают их защищать🤣🤣 Тряпки.
Вы не достойны своей культуры, ваши предки жалеют что вы существуете...
I really like the simple animations. Just enough to paint the picture without pulling you away from the narration.
Here's my favourite joke about the KGB;
The CIA, FBI, and the KGB are tasked with finding a rabbit in a forest.
The CIA show up after a few days and release a 6000 word article on the fact that rabbits don't exist.
The FBI show up with a dead rabbit and say in a press release "The rabbit had it coming."
The KGB show up with a bruised and beaten bear. The bear is forced to make a statement "I am a rabbit, my father was a rabbit, and my mother is a rabbit. My whole family are rabbits!"
@Don't Read My Profile Photo okay, I won’t.
I feel like the CIA and the FBI should be switched..
I love this
bear started speaking russian just so he doesnt get killed by the kgb :skull:
That actually made me chuckle a bit
The KGB (short for Killing Gloves of Boxing) is an unlockable melee weapon for the Heavy in Team Fortress 2, taking the appearance of a pair of boxing gloves colored either red or blue according to the team you're on. Upon killing an enemy with the KGB, all your attacks for the next five seconds are guaranteed to be critical hits. This ability is offset by a 20% slower attack speed.
An effective strategy with this weapon is to kill an enemy with a melee and then switch to your primary or shotgun to deal massively increased damage for 5 seconds.
Ah yes a supreme man of culture
Nerd
Use when Someone touched your gun.
Better paired with the Tomislav for its faster and silent rev time.
Ok nerd
Wasn't the predecessor of KGB called the NKVD and not KVD? And also Jack Barsky is also one of the most famous ex-KGB agents alive today. Barsky was actually in espionage living illegally in NY, where Putin was a low level bureaucrat stationed in Dresden Germany
Had the same question and he's right NKVD briefly became MVD which became KGB.
Not MVD, but MGB. MGB was split into KGB and MVD.
KGB's predecessor was MGB, which is one of NKVDs parts.
NKVD is - People Comissariat of Internal Affairs, while MGB - is Ministry of State Security. And KGB is Comittee of State Security. Their oldest predecessor is ChK, which stands for Emergency Comittee
Really good explanation. Looking forward for more such useful and interesting video. Please carry on sir
*I remember hearing about a Soviet horror story about a black Volga car that was supposed to be the devil's car and kidnapped people and when they were found they were missing blood, turns out that it was just the KGB.*
They aren't too different from each other really.
that’s messed up
I worked with a woman, when she was a little girl she said shadows would come in the night and open apartment doors with keys and take someone, they were the KGB with forged key copies. In under a year they had taken every man in the entire apartment block, one night at a time, including her father. Only 1 ever returned, and he never spoke again in his life and could not work because of all his broken and poorly healed bones. All the men were engineers or bankers, and no one knows why the KGB were taking them or what they did with them (and the few women and children who resisted and got taken as well).
I can confirm, in Poland when I was young they scared us with Black Volga. And it was in 90's after the collapse of Soviet Union.
@@littlekong7685 What could possibly warrant kidnapping men on that scale….?
…Did they know something? Like, something beyond regular KGB secrets???
"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying." - Mikhail Baryshnikov
@Don't Read My Profile Photo the KGB should get you for being a menace
@Don't Read My Profile Photo people have better things to do, don't worry
@Don't Read My Profile Photo sod off bot
There were many careerists in the KGB, since working in the KGB opened up opportunities in many areas, including politics.
3:07 Wow!! I love how you depicted Alcatraz and its cells! Speaking of which, you HAVE to do a video on Alcatraz and its escape attempts! 😍😍🤗🤗☺👍👍❤❤
KGB chief Yuri Andropov was the Soviet Deng Xiaoping, but he died early. And Xi Jinping today, is the Chinese Yuri Andropov
For a lot of years, KGB also had a lot of influence in Indian politics
USSR also had a lot of role in protecting India from USA and its goons, eg 1972 war.
@@caelum2185 TRUE
*Looks at all the non sanctioned oil Indian is buying* Some could say they still do.
@@attemptedunkindness3632 India is one of the few countries that didn't vote against Russia. And moreover the influence of KGB ended after the emergence of RAW.
Nobody cares
Fact: The KGB did not die, it just changed its name from KGB to FSB, using same brutal methods. So, KGB does STILL exist.
….
But the FSB only operates within Russia.
@@shayaldwarka7907 ....that you know of. The CIA isn't allowed to operate on US soil either yet they have done so many times
@@shayaldwarka7907 supposedly, albeit yeah their mainly in Russia.
Man, when i read the last sentence i got shivers down my spine
Nice job as always, but in animation of Prague Spring is Czech flag "upside down". The Statue of Saint Wenceslas holds it right, but the crowd doesnt. Anyway nice work!
Little correction, Prague Spring happened in 1968, not 1969
p.s. keep up the good work, love your videos!
KGB is basicly [CLASSIFIED]
*basically, this is true.
The foudetain
Thank you… I guess?
This was probably the most interesting simple history video I've watched till date. Gonna take some time off RUclips now just to read up about each of these incidents in greater detail.
Its so sad that you killed yourself with 3 gunshots to the back of your head while tied up 3 days from now. RIP
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Very nice. Sad the last part is missing. KGB schooled various specialists in all soviet block countries, russians always have plans for decades ahead. So it happened, that iw in my country, czech republic, we have currently president and central bank governor from the "prognostic office", which was a "economical institute" formed directly by KGB in the 1980s, when they already knew, the CCCP will fall one day. The point was, it was not really the end, just transformation, and people schooled in this institute overtook power in the newly formed free republics. As to this day, we had 2 presidents and about a dozen of various high ranking officials schooled in this very institute. All these years they seemed to be pro-western modern economists to the general public, but they were in fact sleeping agents with simple task of returning all the republics slowly under russian influence again- Luckily they were only partly succesful, but the cold war never ended for russians and the espionage is still strong and will always be.
Россия стала колонией США
@@user-xm2hg3xy7lона НЕ колония США, а полуколония транснациональных компаний
Good plans till the 90s hit.
The KGB were often feared due to how ruthless and inhumane they were. Nobody was safe from their rule of terror be it that they or a family member would soon become targeted to execution or severe torture just for showing even the slightest amounts of anti Soviet sentiment
In Lithuania, there are some monuments dedicated to the victims of them
I love the KGB
I hope the victims can find peace
@@fishingmasterstudios9481 in h3ll lol
Just like CIA
True almost everyone talks about them
The KGB did a lot of stuff off the books, They were basically free to do whatever the CPSU wanted
Still so glad that simple history exists to tell us cool history facts like he could talk about a rock and make it interesting ♥️
They also were much involved in the Bush War in Southern African regions, ( SWA, Angola, Moz, SA, Zim ,Zam ,Tanzania ) with Cuban advisors and secret police and services , not only theirs but also Stasi, North Korean,China and other Warsaw Pacts services also.
As terrifying as the KGB was, they were much softer than their predecessor, the NKVD
KGB is much worse. they destroy the West from the inside. thanks to them, generations of the West, prior to the fall of the KGB, were influenced and indoctrinated by communist/socialist/Marxist ideologies without knowing. these same people would be indoctrinating the next generations despite the fact the KGB doesn't exist anymore
At least, that's what we know of anyway...
The thousands of Polish Officers massacred at Katyn Wood would likely agree with you about the NKVD
@YourNotSoProudFather sure them and before that russian army officers and people. Everybody always had it coming with them
@YourNotSoProudFather Okay, so by that logic the Untermenschen that the N@z1s mentioned had it coming, huh?
Why is everyone scared of heavy players using the Killing Gloves Boxing in tf2?
For those who don't get it: tf2 has a weapon called the KGB (Killer Gloves of Boxing)
Hehe
Can you do more videos like these that talk about organizations in history?
Except the kgb/ Russian secret police still exists, just under a different persona. Agencies like this don't just go away.
People forget that he was former military and he wanted into politics so he joined KGB and yes that was him in the photo with Reagan back in the day, when he had hair.
KGB: wow we are so Effective
The Stasi: hold my beer
Thank you for the info... very good👌🏿
Great video 👐 But I have one question; why are the Czechoslovak flags flipped at 4:07?
4:00 Again, the same inaccuracy I see everywhere! Matyas Rakosi had been removed from office months before the 1956 uprising. He was replaced by Ernő Gerő as Premier of the Hungarian Workers' Party and de facto dictator.
4:20 The Red Army had been renamed to Soviet Army in 1946.
5:42 Khrushchev had no hair at all. He was completely bald.
Try to search some photos of Khrushchev smartass.
He isn't bald
Also the narrator clearly said "former head of state"...when talking about Rakosi.
Idiot...
also ussr didnt collapse, it was illegally dissolved, and yeltsin couped ussr
@@WM-gf8zm A matter of opinions. The USSR was in an untenable situation and couldn't survive. That's a collapse in my book.
@@nematolvajkergetok5104 There was a referendum and the people said they wanted it to NOT be dissolved. Eltsin, the drunk pig, did the opposite.
@@nematolvajkergetok5104 it was still illegally dissolved whether you like it or not. its a fact, not how someone looks at it. Yeltsin dissolved it without it going through people or state.
Ask Mason, Woods, Adler and Hudson
They will Tell you all you need to know about them
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The numbers? What do they mean?
Dragovich..Krevchenko..Steiner...
ALL MUST DIE
im very glad you mention 4:23 in czechoslovakia its a famous photo in our country
History is always interesting to me. Sometimes it can be painful. However, it should never be hidden or censored.
History, especially in the last 500 years have always, always been painful.
“The KGB is just the meaner cousin of the CIA” -someone probably
I believe you got that backwards
@@Artak091 right
@@Artak091 trust me, the KGB was much, much worse, the CIA is a joke compared
Understatement
I nvr thought of that
there a story about Russian citizen was visiting a hotel, soon after he checked in he smokes a little and puts his cigar in a flower pot. Soon after he hears this announcement: Please don't put your cigarettes in the flower pots, your damaging the mics!
I don't think anyone in a hotel puts a cigarette in a flower pot... It's not ethical.
Thank you for video sir
You guys should do videos about Naval ships/Classes honestly.
God, your animation work just keeps getting better and better.
KGB
*Slaps Simply History*
"WE WILL ASK THE QUESTIONS!"
While on the subject of secret police you should talk about the scale of the stasi during the Cold War in East Germany
The killing gloves of boxing give crits after kill, so of course they're feared when paired with the tomislav, which has an increased spin up speed.
You can still feel the effects of KGB after 30 years
Hey simple history, i just wanted to say i enjoyed this episode, and will you be making an episode on the gestappo?
The KGB was created because the West was never given rest by Russia's rich resources, and the USSR was a completely independent competitor. The freedom of some chattering dissidents was not at all interested in the West, but was only used in anti-Soviet propaganda.If the USSR still existed, various economic sanctions would have zero effect.
Please do a video on the battle of Delville wood. As a South African it would be truly amazing to see our troops remembered on this channel.
Thank you..
I missed the old animation style but I like this one better
Can you do a video about the kenpeitai? Would love it!
There is a problem with the John Anthony Walker part from 3:41 to 3:52. He was not a dissident, rather he was a US Navy communications specialist who decided to provide classified information to the KGB as he was having financial difficulties. To put it simply, he did it for money.
Wasnt it him that ordered so many cases of film for his Minox camera that they started to have a look at him?
Don't break the 4th wall.
Nikita Khrushchev shared this opinion in his memoirs:
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war, One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
The United States purposely weakened the ussr using Germany.
Where can I read said memoirs
lend lease was no joke
@@s0nnyburnett we can see what it did with Ukraine. They’re getting bankrolled, to such a point that any equipment losses can be replaced without much concern
@Pops Mcgee Very doubtful.
5:08 Imagine if Putin and Zelensky met at the peace talks and started pouring lead onto each other with concealed pistols.
But zelensky reveals he had a prop and pulls out 2 ak47s and akimbos them servant of the people style.
Zelensky isn’t part of any military so he’d get smoked by the former KGB agent
So childish.
@@Romchikthelemon says the guy watching cartoon history videos
Interesting, would be nice if you'd do a similar expose on the CIA/NSA/FBI/DHS complex and it's Foreign Coups.
Not to mention it's inherent static nature when compared to the 'fluid' nature of public office jobs, although their fluidity in the US can be argued.
In the end you have a large security apparatus that's looking to justify it's existence and lacks oversight.
Can you guys cover Rhodesian Conflicts as well as their special forces like RLI, SAS and Selous Scouts?
Loved the video @Simple History! Can't wait for the next video guys! The one thing we must also remember about Vladimir Putin and his ties to the KGB is that he was a 23 year old, Top-Teir Lieutenant in the KGB at the Time of the Soviet Union's Collapse in 1989-1990. He knows more about what's going on in the World than he let's on.
He absolutely was not a top tier lieutenant. That is mythologizing. Putin was a mid-level operative who was a bit below par when it came to actual spy activities but was INCREDIBLY good with people.
What makes me most confused about your message though is...what do you mean "than he let's on?" Putin has always been completely open about his KGB past and has used it to get ahead in politics the entire time. It isn't a secret to anybody.
Vladimir Putin was 39 years old when he left Germany and returned to the USSR. He will be 70 in a few months.
He was born in 1952 so he would’ve been in his late 30s in 1989 and he was a Lt Colonel when the USSR collapsed in 1991
Like the coverup of Tartaria…..
Then he was the director of the FSB in the 90s in Russia
"Get the charge ready Bell"
- Adler
We've got a job to do
Is this a re-upload? I thought I saw it before a year ago
I hope you also do more videos of these, for the other intelligence agencies through history: CIA, SIS, ISI (Pakistan), Stasi, Mossad, and others.
I recommend the podcast The Agent, the story of Jack Barsky. Very interesting true story with the spy stuff
2:00 they existed before the Gestapo they were originally from Lenin then got a name change then became the NKVD and then the KGB
Cheka to be precise
Perhaps the most terryfing thing is the fact that most KGB activities, assets and agents remain unknown, and after USSR colapse they haven't vanished in thin air. Modern GRU still has access to most of them and I'm positive Russians know exactly how to make a use of them.
"The Americans" is a great look into the 80s undercover KGB. Some think it was overrated but I think it was pretty good and an interesting insight into the era.
It was pretty dramatic but the premise was amazing. I expected more from the show (more politics, less personal drama) but television needs certain elements to be successful I guess. Still would recommend the show wholeheartedly.
I liked the show, but the real KGB officers who were declassified in America and who served as prototypes of the main characters (the Bezrukov family, who pretended to be Americans for more than 20 years and had 2 children who did not know that their parents were Russian spies). So they saw this series and said it was great, but it had nothing to do with reality. They don't run around with guns in the streets and don't torture anyone in the garage. Their job is to integrate into society and make the right connections with the right people to get information. They don't break into anyone's safes - it would be too risky, so you can easily get caught. Their task, on the contrary, is to integrate into society so much and make such strong social ties that no one will ever suspect them.
They also told a lot of interesting things about their work in America, about what mistakes they made and wrote a book in Russian, how to make a circle of acquaintances and achieve goals (for example, career advancement and all that), sharing their experience and psychological knowledge. As an introvert, the book turned out to be useful to me, because it's hard for me to make friends.
And then the FSB came to be and it was back to business as usual.
well more like they just changed name. And shrunk their appetite, now they just poison people in public and helping people to kill themselves
It’s been the same business since the late 1800’s with the Okhrana and it’s unlikely to ever stop.
can you do more Yugoslavija stuff?
I finally a simple history video without clickbait thumbnail
I love these documentaries!
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TF2?
@@Mechabang Ahh, I see you are man of culture as well...
"Hehehe, crry some more." Heavy Weapons Guy.
They also have the Gloves of Running Urgently (GRU)
Ah, a man of culture as well...
I'm new to your channel, and it's awesome, keep up the good work Simple History 💙😁.
Great video, you should make one of the Easter Rising of 1916.
Thank you for bringing my country there. I didn't know in our country one party system was influenced by kgb. Thanks!
Thank you for posting!!
1:03 Communist version of "Hi I'm here to talk about your car's extended warranty"
Do you think you could do a video on the ARVN?
Yeah. I found the KGB Spray painted on various articles in Alaska, when I was visiting there. It was in a city called ketchikan. Was totally scared, until I looked across the street and saw the Ketchikan Government Bureau XD
The FSB is the new KGB.
Nah. The FSB don't even pretend to be not corrupt. They are more Thugs than Intelligence Officers. The FSB lives off the Successes the KGB and other Soviet Intelligence Services made. That's why they are feared. If you've seen the latest Assassinations they executed like the Bicyle-Driveby on that Guy in Berlin... Pretty pathetic. And if you use Poison- Don't use the radioactive Material your Country is the biggest Producer of.
"There's a mole within the KGB"
- Secretary Gorbachev
Gorbachev was 😂😂😂
@@Anonymous-qj3sf no it was Comrade Belikov
Just discovered this channel, and the narrator reminds me of David Hayter of Solid Snake fame x
This sort of system is still around today even though the KGB is gone it’s no wonder why many comic book writers and movie makers often portrayed villains out of Russians back in the 50’s and 60’s like Emil Blonsky in Marvel Boris and Natasha in Rocky and Bullwinkle and KGBeast in Batman for example.
Prague's spring didnt begin at 1969, but in August 1968. Other then that, nice video!
Actually August 68 is when it ended, it started in January
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 Indeed! Prague Spring was from 5 jan 1968 until 21 aug 1968.
I'm from Bangladesh, the country of Mujibur Rahman who is known as "Bangabandhu"(the friend of Bengal) in Bangladesh. Mujib was a brave and charismatic leader. Though he was a very religious person, he expressed his supports toward socialism in his memoirs. India and the USSR militarily and politically supported Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971. After becoming president, Mujib received numerous warnings from KGB and Indian secret services about the coup plot which was being organized against him by some army officers who cherished to make a confederation with Pakistan by overthrowing Mujib government.(According to historian Lawrence Lifschultz, the CIA was also behind the coup plot).But Mujib ignored those warnings as he didn't believe that his dear countrymen could conspire against him. He also faced pro-Chinese communist insurgents who got weapons and trainings during 1971 war and received financial support from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China, to destabilize the infant country. This violent upheaval prompted him to tighten state control over the newly formed country and banned all political organizations even his party Awami League from political activities. In 1975, Mujib was killed and since his death,.the country witnessed dozens of coups, counter-coups, political instability, massive corruption, deformation of constitution, state-sponsored terrorism minority persecution at the hands of Zia's BNP and Jamiat, who use the name of Islam to justify their all evil deeds, for the next 26 years.
Now Bangladesh is moving forward. It became one of the biggest economies of South Asia and dubbed as "the next Asian tiger". But socio-political problems such as corruption, illiteracy, political turmoil etc. still exist. I hope we, the new generation will make Bangladesh "the golden Bengal", for which Mujib fought and spent his golden youth behind the bars
Just because you're an Indian Hindu sympathizer, doesn't mean you have to spread lies here. Obiviously Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was and is our countries most beloved leader but your theory of pro-Chinese & Islamic country is just a bullshit theory. Because of people like you after 52 years of independence, our country's people are still divided.
@@mashrufalam7184 I gave an inverted comma above both "islamic country" and "islamist". Read my comment thoroughly, bro. You don't have to be a Hindu sympathiser to admit the reality.
@@sudiptabhattacharjee2052 you have no idea about Bangladeshi politics.. You indian Hindu only hate Muslim and kill them.. Remember Bango bondu sheikh mujib was Muslim..and 95% Bangladeshi are muslim.
@@mashrufalam7184 lol, Khaleda Zia and her party is Muslim copy of Bjp and modi.
I haven't watched this video yet, but it looks like it would be very interesting.
What do you use for animating?
1:09 Saul Goodman nooo 😭😭
"better call Saul theme starts playing"
LOL