09-11-2010, 05:16 AM
Considering how much attention I pay to security service awards, I was surprised to read about the MGB being yet another extension of Stalin's iron fist. I guess I just hoped that when the NKVD was no more (at least in name) the paranoid persecutions were over.
From what I've gathered recently through not very extensive reading, the NKGB/MGB was pretty much the founder of all the Soviet "satellite" countries in Eastern Europe in terms of new "people's democracies" that were strictly enforced through Soviet advisers and their newly-created offspring in the Warsaw Pact countries.
I also did not know that the resistance to Soviet Union membership was so strong for so long after the end of WWII with L'vov as essentially the center or "capital" of the partisans in Ukraine, which then makes it rather ironic that the KGB would eventually have such an overwhelming presence there.
Phillip
From what I've gathered recently through not very extensive reading, the NKGB/MGB was pretty much the founder of all the Soviet "satellite" countries in Eastern Europe in terms of new "people's democracies" that were strictly enforced through Soviet advisers and their newly-created offspring in the Warsaw Pact countries.
I also did not know that the resistance to Soviet Union membership was so strong for so long after the end of WWII with L'vov as essentially the center or "capital" of the partisans in Ukraine, which then makes it rather ironic that the KGB would eventually have such an overwhelming presence there.
Phillip
Phillip
