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Russia 'to revive the KGB' after Putin wins biggest majority
Telegraph (UK) ^
| 19 September 2016 • 3:39PM
| Marc Bennetts
Posted on 09/19/2016 8:56:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Russia plans effectively to revive the KGB under a massive shake-up of its security forces, a respected business daily has reported.
A State Security Ministry, or MGB, would be created from the current Federal Security Service (FSB) , and would incorporate the foreign intelligence service (SVR) and the state guard service (FSO), under the plans. It would be handed all-encompassing powers once possessed by the KGB, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing security service sources.
Like the much-feared KGB, it would also oversee the prosecutions of Kremlin critics, a task currently undertaken by the Investigative Committee, headed by Alexander Bastrykin, a former university classmate of President Putin. The Kremlin has not commented. …
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: California
KEYWORDS: alexanderbastrykin; eurasianunion; fsb; fsbputin; kgb; kgbputin; mgb; mgbputin; newussr; putin; russia; secretpolice; sovietunion2
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posted on
09/19/2016 8:56:11 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
MGB? Pardon, Tovaritch, but that name's taken.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:00:11 PM PDT
by
katana
To: Olog-hai
As the song goes, BACK IN THE USSR....
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:00:35 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: Olog-hai
Putin must be grinning from ear to ear.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:01:23 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Yuri Andropov, his mentor, would be so proud.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:11:57 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater)
To: Olog-hai
Under Yeltsin there was a Ministry Of Security... in one way or another the security organs have lived on after the demise of the Soviet Union.
FSB still celebrates its founding from the creation of the Cheka in 1922.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:18:40 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: Olog-hai
BBC had a video of a woman stuffing a ballot box
To: Olog-hai
The KGB was so ruthless to Soviet citizens.
I have a hard time believing Russians would want that kind of thing again.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:22:15 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Fifty days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
To: Olog-hai
Putin has an 80% personal popularity rating... United Russia won a landslide victory, winning 140 or 54% of the party list seats. It won 203 of the 225 single member constituency seats.
This is the party’s second supermajority since its landslide win in 2007 with 64% of the vote.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:22:24 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: Olog-hai
If Tsar Vladimir could, he would conquer all land that was ever controlled by the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. Resurrecting the KGB is just another step along the way for him.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:23:42 PM PDT
by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: Olog-hai
More anti-Russian propaganda in the Corporatist media.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:41:33 PM PDT
by
Nextrush
(Remember Pastor Niemoller: Freedom is everybody's business)
To: Olog-hai
Did it ever go away? I don’t think so.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:44:02 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
To: Olog-hai
This will not be good for the average Russian citizen.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:46:05 PM PDT
by
WMarshal
(Trump 2016)
To: Olog-hai
This will not be good for the average Russian citizen.
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:47:27 PM PDT
by
WMarshal
(Trump 2016)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
09/19/2016 9:52:06 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
To: DoughtyOne
They didn’t want it the last time either. But they got it, and Solzhenitsyn put it down to no will on the people’s part to fight back.
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posted on
09/19/2016 10:25:25 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Nextrush
The
DC has the story too. Are they “corporatists”?
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posted on
09/19/2016 10:33:08 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: katana; Olog-hai
MGB? Pardon, Tovaritch, but that name's taken.Their first choice was "Homeland Security", but that was already taken as well.
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posted on
09/19/2016 10:37:49 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(America, a Rule of Mob nation)
To: Olog-hai
I have a lot of respect for Solzhenitsyn, but I don’t see how the public can prevail against the KGB.
The military would step in the squash anyone objecting.
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posted on
09/19/2016 11:08:36 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Fifty days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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