Tell a relevant joke first.

A British, a French, and a Soviet were chatting together.

British: The happiest thing in life is to go home at night in winter and sit in front of a warm fireplace drinking tea wearing woolen pants.

French people: You British people really lack interest. The happiest thing would be to go on vacation to the Mediterranean with a graceful blonde, and then we can reconcile and break up. ??

Soviet people: The happiest thing is to be awakened by a hurried knock on the door in the middle of the night. After opening the door, I was told: "I am a staff member of the National Security Council, Ivan, you are under arrest." ?You are mistaken, Ivan is in the next room. ?

The abbreviation of the "National Security Council of the Soviet Union" is KGB. The KGB was an important intelligence agency of the Soviet Union from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. It was contracted by the Soviet Intelligence Organization. It was integrated with Cheka and the State Security Service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs under Stalin.

(In 1987, the venue of the 33rd anniversary commemoration of the founding of the KGB)

Obviously, the KGB was created by Khrushchev. Earlier, Stalin carried out the "big purge". At that time, the atmosphere of terror was mainly created by the Cheka and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Objectively speaking, the KGB cannot be blamed entirely for the Soviet era's bad reputation.

The Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs was similar to the police system, but had much greater power than the police. Internal Affairs Corps staff are not civil servants but active military personnel.

(The picture below is the last Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union, Boris Karlovich Pugo, who had a strong KGB background. After the coup failed, this old man shot himself with his wife. , died in the Soviet Union. This is really unimaginable. The KGB boss Kryuchkov was released after only three years. What’s even more ironic is that this tough old man turned out to be a Latvian.) p>

The KGB is similar to our Ministry of National Security, an intelligence agency whose staff are civil servants, similar to a subordinate department of the National Security Agency. However, the so-called "subordinate" relationship has long been in name only. The power of the KGB not only surpasses its father, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also almost overrides all departments. It can forcibly arrest, detain, even torture and execute without legal procedures. .

The KGB has its own independent army, usually special forces, such as the famous "Signal Flag". This tradition was inherited by modern Russia, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it belonged to the Russian Federal Security Service. It mainly specializes in subversion and counter-subversion abroad, alerting Russian targets abroad, rescuing hostages and handling emergencies, etc. It is similar to the CIA on a daily basis.

For a long time, although the KGB has been on an equal footing with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, its scope of activities has been larger than that of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It can not only direct espionage activities abroad, but also suppress counterrevolutionaries at home. The Ministry of Internal Affairs mainly operates within the Soviet Union, and is similar to a coercive and stability-maintaining agency. The two activities have a large intersection, and they work together to create an atmosphere of political terror in the Soviet Union.

In the Soviet Union, the KGB was above enterprises, institutions and the law. It was a privileged department. Its members were naturally the "privileged class". Although they made little contribution to anti-Western subversion and maintaining national and social stability, they did not Small; but because of its "privileged class" status, it brought about a series of abuse of power, corruption and various political and cultural terrorist acts, coupled with the horrific legend of torture and extortion of confessions, it was not very popular among the Soviet people.

However, even so, the image of the KGB at that time, at least in the Soviet Union, did not reach the stage of "notoriety", and even continued to attract batches of elite young people to join enthusiastically.

After strict screening, all-round assessment and extremely demanding political review, those who can finally enter the system are very rare and they are not ordinary people. Among them is Emperor Putin, who is in the news today. During Putin’s first term as president, more than half of the important officials in the Kremlin had a KGB background. It is said that Putin at that time, in addition to having two brushes, also had the credit of being born in a "revolutionary family".