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{{Important}}{{Evil_Organization|Box title = Evil Organization|image = 8A7970B7-F029-4EE3-B425-62B0ECA7866E.png|fullname = English: Committee for State Security

{{Evil_Organization|Box title = Evil Organization|image = 8A7970B7-F029-4EE3-B425-62B0ECA7866E.png|fullname = English: Committee for State Security

Russian: Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности|origin = Soviet Union|foundation = March 13, 1954|headquarters = Moscow, Soviet Union|commanders = [[Ivan Serov]] (1954-1958)

[[Alexander Shelepin]] (1958-1961)

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[[Torture]]|type of villains = Evil Agency}}{{Quote|Loyalty to the party – Loyalty to motherland.|The KGB's motto.}}The '''Committee for State Security''' (''Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности'') or more commonly known as the '''KGB''' was the main intelligence agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until it’s dissolution in 1991.

[[Torture]]|type of villains = Evil Agency}}

{{Quote|Loyalty to the party – Loyalty to motherland.|The KGB's motto.}}

The '''Committee for State Security''' (''Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности'') or more commonly known as the '''KGB''' was the main intelligence agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until it’s dissolution in 1991.

As a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the Cheka, NKGB, [[NKVD]] and MGB, the committee was attached to the Council of Ministers. It was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", acting as internal security, intelligence and secret police. Similar agencies were constituted in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from Russian SFSR, and consisted of many ministries, state committees and state commissions.

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During the Cold War, the KGB actively sought to combat "ideological subversion" – anti-[[communist]] political and religious ideas and the dissidents who promoted them – which was generally dealt with as a matter of national security in discouraging influence of hostile foreign powers. After denouncing [[Stalin]]ism in his secret speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences in 1956, head of state Nikita Khrushchev lessened suppression of "ideological subversion". As a result, critical literature re-emerged, including the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was code-named PAUK ("spider") by the KGB. After Khrushchev's deposition in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev reverted the State and KGB to actively harsh suppression; house searches to seize documents and the continual monitoring of dissidents became routine again. To wit, in 1965, such a search-and-seizure operation yielded Solzhenitsyn manuscripts of "slanderous fabrications", and the subversion trial of the novelists Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel; Sinyavsky (alias "Abram Tertz"), and Daniel (alias "Nikolai Arzhak"), were captured after a Moscow literary-world informant told KGB when to find them at home.

In 1967, the campaign of this suppression increased under new KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov. After suppressing the Prague Spring, KGB Chairman Andropov established the Fifth Directorate to monitor dissension and eliminate dissenters. He was especially concerned with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, "Public Enemy Number One".~~[20]~~ Andropov failed to expel Solzhenitsyn before 1974; but did internally exile Sakharov to Gorky in 1980. The KGB failed to prevent Sakharov's collecting his Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, but did prevent Yuri Orlov collecting his Nobel Prize in 1978; Chairman Andropov supervised both operations.

In 1967, the campaign of this suppression increased under new KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov. After suppressing the Prague Spring, KGB Chairman Andropov established the Fifth Directorate to monitor dissension and eliminate dissenters. He was especially concerned with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, "Public Enemy Number One". Andropov failed to expel Solzhenitsyn before 1974; but did internally exile Sakharov to Gorky in 1980. The KGB failed to prevent Sakharov's collecting his Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, but did prevent Yuri Orlov collecting his Nobel Prize in 1978; Chairman Andropov supervised both operations.

KGB dissident-group infiltration featured agents provocateurs pretending "sympathy to the cause", smear campaigns against prominent dissidents, and show trials; once imprisoned, the dissident endured KGB interrogators and sympathetic informant cell-mates. In the event, Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policies lessened persecution of dissidents; he was effecting some of the policy changes they had been demanding since the 1970s.

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-{{Important}}{{Evil_Organization|Box title = Evil Organization|image = 8A7970B7-F029-4EE3-B425-62B0ECA7866E.png|fullname = English: Committee for State Security<br>
+{{Important}}
+{{Evil_Organization|Box title = Evil Organization|image = 8A7970B7-F029-4EE3-B425-62B0ECA7866E.png|fullname = English: Committee for State Security<br>
 Russian: Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности|origin = Soviet Union|foundation = March 13, 1954|headquarters = Moscow, Soviet Union|commanders = [[Ivan Serov]] (1954-1958)<br>
 [[Alexander Shelepin]] (1958-1961)<br>
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 Kidnaping<br>
 [[Murder]]<br>
-[[Torture]]|type of villains = Evil Agency}}{{Quote|Loyalty to the party – Loyalty to motherland.|The KGB's motto.}}The '''Committee for State Security''' (''Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности'') or more commonly known as the '''KGB''' was the main intelligence agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until it’s dissolution in 1991.
+[[Torture]]|type of villains = Evil Agency}}
+{{Quote|Loyalty to the party – Loyalty to motherland.|The KGB's motto.}}
+The '''Committee for State Security''' (''Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности'') or more commonly known as the '''KGB''' was the main intelligence agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until it’s dissolution in 1991.
 As a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the Cheka, NKGB, [[NKVD]] and MGB, the committee was attached to the Council of Ministers. It was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", acting as internal security, intelligence and secret police. Similar agencies were constituted in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from Russian SFSR, and consisted of many ministries, state committees and state commissions.
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 During the Cold War, the KGB actively sought to combat "ideological subversion" – anti-[[communist]] political and religious ideas and the dissidents who promoted them – which was generally dealt with as a matter of national security in discouraging influence of hostile foreign powers. After denouncing [[Stalin]]ism in his secret speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences in 1956, head of state Nikita Khrushchev lessened suppression of "ideological subversion". As a result, critical literature re-emerged, including the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was code-named PAUK ("spider") by the KGB. After Khrushchev's deposition in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev reverted the State and KGB to actively harsh suppression; house searches to seize documents and the continual monitoring of dissidents became routine again. To wit, in 1965, such a search-and-seizure operation yielded Solzhenitsyn manuscripts of "slanderous fabrications", and the subversion trial of the novelists Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel; Sinyavsky (alias "Abram Tertz"), and Daniel (alias "Nikolai Arzhak"), were captured after a Moscow literary-world informant told KGB when to find them at home.
-In 1967, the campaign of this suppression increased under new KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov. After suppressing the Prague Spring, KGB Chairman Andropov established the Fifth Directorate to monitor dissension and eliminate dissenters. He was especially concerned with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, "Public Enemy Number One".[20] Andropov failed to expel Solzhenitsyn before 1974; but did internally exile Sakharov to Gorky in 1980. The KGB failed to prevent Sakharov's collecting his Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, but did prevent Yuri Orlov collecting his Nobel Prize in 1978; Chairman Andropov supervised both operations.
+In 1967, the campaign of this suppression increased under new KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov. After suppressing the Prague Spring, KGB Chairman Andropov established the Fifth Directorate to monitor dissension and eliminate dissenters. He was especially concerned with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, "Public Enemy Number One". Andropov failed to expel Solzhenitsyn before 1974; but did internally exile Sakharov to Gorky in 1980. The KGB failed to prevent Sakharov's collecting his Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, but did prevent Yuri Orlov collecting his Nobel Prize in 1978; Chairman Andropov supervised both operations.
 KGB dissident-group infiltration featured agents provocateurs pretending "sympathy to the cause", smear campaigns against prominent dissidents, and show trials; once imprisoned, the dissident endured KGB interrogators and sympathetic informant cell-mates. In the event, Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policies lessened persecution of dissidents; he was effecting some of the policy changes they had been demanding since the 1970s.