Inside Russia's Secret Service

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Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script:

[@corymorimacori1059]

“You’ll find that the Ex-KGB is the best MC in the Ex-CCCP!” Vladimir Putin

[@boombl443]

I See another vet of them Rap battles

[@RipRLeeErmey]

Ironically that was probably the best representation he's gonna be getting in the West for decades to come lmao

[@linehand5413]

I feel old now lol that’s a throwback

[@MrAmeame]

Yo I quoted this in a history test and my lecturer told me to see them after the next lesson 😭💀😂🤣 I mean it sounds believable I could defs hear Putin jamming Eminem 😂

[@unknowncomrade5023]

He did it

[@alainarturopulidobarron1073]

As a Cold War history enthusiast I must say this is an incredible video, a very well-documented one.

[@ClickClack_Bam]

Did you know that Putin once sang the song "Blueberry Hill" in front of a bunch of American celebrities?

[@charless.gorski537]

Something about the narrator's voice and the illustrations make this channel amazing.

[@juanspicywiener]

Except the blue pilled take on Mccarthy

[@Ghost0465-1]

You mean well researched?

[@alainarturopulidobarron1073]

@@Ghost0465-1 Yes.

[@General_Belu]

Imagine if the revolts in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and GDR occurred at the same time.

[@jbradley8659]

What's GDR?

[@kyleandre6957]

@@jbradley8659 German Democratic Rep. (East Germany)

[@tommyhijmensen6257]

​@@kyleandre6957 😂you mean DDR =Deutsche Demokratische Republik

[@kyleandre6957]

@@tommyhijmensen6257 No, I mean Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei 😛

[@SunderZyzie]

​@@kyleandre6957 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@Marinealver]

KGB: Soviet FSB: Russia

[@The_Hagseed]

I mean.... Russia's secret service has a name. Beijing secret service is so secret, people just know it as Beijing.

[@collinthegamer510]

💀

[@mohammadubaid9071]

Your history videos are also liked in eastern region, I request you to make a video on Bangladesh independence and 1971 war. Thank you

[@nickreede6369]

Perhaps the NKVD was even worse

[@saucyinnit8799]

Well it was under the control of Yezhov, Yagoda and Beria aka 3 lunatics sooo

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

The fact it got renamed numerous times after the rule of those 3 demons speak volumes about how horrifying they were...

[@Gameprojordan]

Small critiques; At 12:53 when it shows Lavrentiy Beria being arrested, there's a soldier behind him armed with an AK-74 rifle, which came out in 1974. It is anachronistic to the time of Beria's arrest and execution, which happened in 1953. At 18:18 it shows multiple security forces with the magazines backwards in their guns, ontop of using the prototype version of the AK-12 rifle, which wasn't a thing until 2012. It is anachronistic to the time of the theater siege which happened in 2002. At 19:00 during the 2004 Beslan school Massacre scenes, it again shows soldiers equipped with anachronistic 2012 era prototype AK-12 rifles *disclaimer* the AK-12 went through multiple design changes before being officially produced in 2018. The first prototype ever unveiled of the gun came out in 2012, which looked quite different to the production version in 2018

[@theimperialfistsspacemarin3050]

Actually the AK-47 was as its namesake produced in 1947 and was adopted by the soviet army in 1949, since it was Moscow and the best equipment was hauled out already due to this being not long after stalins death it doesn’t seem too far fetched

[@yarnickgoovaerts]

@@theimperialfistsspacemarin3050 but he didn’t say anything about the AK-47

[@alhamdulilahforislam]

​@@theimperialfistsspacemarin3050 ak 74 not ak 47,it is 7.62 x 39 over 5.45 x 45

[@Carolina_Luke]

​@@theimperialfistsspacemarin3050 Look at this guy trying to sound smart. He said AK-74 which came out in 1974. Next time read more carefully. Sounds like it's something you don't do often.

[@Carolina_Luke]

The only time the visor cap and tunic and pants should be brown is for the everyday uniform. the honor guard wear the parade version of the Soviet uniform which means it should be the royal blue shade. Its also worth mentioning they would have a chest badge to mark their position.

[@ClickClack_Bam]

Did you all know that Putin once sang "Blueberry Hill" in front of a large audience which included actor Kurt Russell & MANY other celebrities & important people?

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

KGB: doing whatever they want FSB: using old techniques in creative ways to do what Putin tells

[@ApostleWithGlizzy]

Jimmy McGill vibes with the Thumbnail LOVE your Videos❤

[@neofulcrum5013]

This is a good reference for an intelligence service in my novel.

[@OofBloxzz]

Whats the novel?

[@OmegaCorsair]

im interested

[@OofBloxzz]

@@OmegaCorsair Me too

[@OmegaCorsair]

@Stone Sky Sunrise Please tell us!

[@phincampbell1886]

The Infographics Show, or just more generally KZbin?

[@Unknown_Bag]

SimpleHistory The first and second chechen war with russia is a very interesting topic, you should get on that!

[@halooord]

1:17 guy got shot looked like Saul Goodman. 💀

[@aliefabdurrahman3302]

0:07 KGB the Soviet Intellegence Agency(Curently FSB of Russian Federation) 9:21 Russian Federas Security Service/FSB

[@alanroberson9749]

Very good job fellows throughout the 2nd century seasonal education week of said May!! Congratulations. I request you to make a video on Bangladesh independence and 1971 war. Thank you dudes!!!

[@AADP]

The way you just rush the mentioning of Beria xD i wonder why

[@paulcowlishaw]

Great video simple history. 1:06

[@blaircolquhoun7780]

Today it's the FSB.

[@bolobalaman]

Putin be like third time a charm

[@billyyoung6365]

I've said it once and I'll say it again i looovee this narrator's voice

[@arandomdunce]

What is the music used? Been trying to find the music for so long now.

[@danslandsend]

It’s really easy to figure out how many McCarthy caught.

[@ewlchen]

I prefer the KGB’s new name… the KG used to be

[@Vodaph0ne]

HANG ON!!! ISN'T THIS A RE POST????

[@christianlorentz9981]

Prague Spring was in 1968

[@yobalmer8936]

4:57 iron foundry

[@urbanscottson2167]

3:07 I used to think McCarthy was a monster. Looking around... I wish they'd given him a freer hand

[@jangschoen1019]

Really? No mention of Feliks Dzerzhinsky?

[@skyking6989]

In soviet union KZbin watches you!

[@Mortablunt]

So when are we talking about the CIA's antics?

[@solalee4693]

9:21 why new narrator?

[@Faither011]

never ask CIA and KGB what they did, like ever........

[@jogeanJPtambot]

Terrifying.

[@RavenBlaze]

This wasn't all that long ago. Anyone question why Ukraine is fighting so hard and the world needs to support them?

[@shayaldwarka7907]

Fighting hard in losing. Throwing en into the meat grinder. Surrendering. Yup they fight hard.

[@Mortablunt]

Yes. Why couldn't Ukraine just let people speak the langauges they wanted instead of sending the army to kill them by the tens of thousands?

[@jayhendricks7487]

I like the first guys voice better 😜. But their all great.

[@petekdemircioglu]

I am. Who put me there? Send them out.

[@dondouglass6415]

As an Englishman, I have never ever seen the French as poor soldiers.

[@poil8351]

confusingly the nkvd became mvd and the nkgb became the mgb then the secret police were split from the mvd and became the kgb.

[@tenzin9661]

For bureaucratic reasons!

[@papugabru8996]

0:17 my mum told me the russian writing means lenin

[@teneclarusslavicus5390]

She's right

[@papugabru8996]

@@teneclarusslavicus5390 my mums mother lived when poland was occupied by the soviets and she even took my mum when she was a toddler to a solidarnozc protest(not a riot),and she had to learn russian in school

[@teneclarusslavicus5390]

@@papugabru8996, I think I know, what protest do you mean, we used to call it "demonstratsya". A "protest" with a lot of communist things) Pretty cool by the way that your mother knows Russian at least somehow. I heard it is very difficult for non-Russians and not eastern slavic people

[@Zapper-kq1zg]

@@papugabru8996occupation? Propaganda

[@kirkdurkadurka]

Why did the narrator voice change? Not cool

[@rattozzo93]

when about the CIA?

[@milmex317th]

Those poor Russian can't catch a fucking break.

[@mulapare2593]

18:06, no, the 2nd Chechen war!

[@besttom8823]

REALLY no one is talking about Czechoslovak flag being wrongly held upside down in the video? :D

[@h2.t2]

It means a country is in distress.

[@romanivantsyk2785]

It would be logical to make video on CIA after.

[@mapalozimba2107]

Moscow would like to know your location

[@krroney]

Она знает

[@relcnt]

yes

[@davidf2911]

Is it just me or does it sound like voice over its under water or recorded on an old cassette tape

[@jacobjohnson4829]

you mean who they ARE and what they DO?

[@kingninewillnotreturnvilla2]

You forgot the NKVD НКВД

[@slavic_viking9638]

the NKVD was mentioned numerous of times

[@kingninewillnotreturnvilla2]

@@slavic_viking9638 not at the beginning

[@UNV7]

that's happen in france not russia

[@SunderZyzie]

No.

[@UNV7]

@@SunderZyzie france the most A racist state towards Muslims

[@sagarah8217]

Seems close to Obama’s NSA

[@seava_gaming7211]

Ca you please do a video on the troubles in ireland

[@micahistory]

That would be a terrible place to work in, you never know when they'll turn on you

[@krroney]

Как и во всех таких местах

[@AADP]

​@@krroney nee, honor is not something soviets have

[@krroney]

@@AADP а это как связанно с моим комментарием?

[@kolasillers7776]

1:30- also Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.

[@AR15andGOD]

These are great vids. I really appreciate the depiction of islamic terrorists, mockery as it should be

[@johnmatthews4717]

Okrana. NKVD. KGB. FSB. DKRO... Russians never change.

[@Zapper-kq1zg]

Typical yanky

[@naturalcambion3747]

Thankfully we don’t have anything like this in the United States.

[@johnthefishermanjohnhoyle5763]

lol progressives

[@DeNihility]

Not sure if this is sarcastic, but isn't this basically the NSA and FBI but with less subtlety?

[@My_reaI_name]

@@DeNihility more like atf

[@saucyinnit8799]

CIA : i'm going to pretend i didn't see that

[@naturalcambion3747]

@@saucyinnit8799 see what?

[@DoktorBuzik]

Prague spring happened in 1968, not 1969 and that flag was not czechoslovakian but upside down czech flag.

[@kolasillers7776]

Before KGB there was a Checkists.

[@slavic_viking9638]

they mentioned this in the video

[@TheUglyGnome]

2:32 Your reel-to-reel tape recorder is running backwards. Well ... maybe because it's a soviet tape recorder. 😁

[@Mortablunt]

Including 3 sparate famines, the genocide by the Nazis (your favorites), and high end estimates by political hacks trying to sell sensationalism.

[@corymorimacori1059]

“KGB were doggin me. Take my name and just let me be.” Michael Jackson

[@chrisczarnik3439]

Russia has that traitor Orban in Hungary now.

[@glitchyjoe64]

midwit

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

Camp Delta...

[@eifelitorn]

Prague Spring was in 68 not 69

[@Maplelust]

a person in the KGB is not the guy you want running a country. Russia is pathetic.

[@phamhoangminh7846]

so when do you talk about CIA dirty secret, never right

[@Daniel4646]

This video brings all the more to the light of day what a brutal control freak Vladimir Putin really is.

[@kitfisto145]

He is a War Criminal

[@komandorshepard3083]

And yet many people from the west adore him because they think that Putin is "a defender of conservative values"

[@lifyzen5692]

Lmfao id be surprised to see a person that does not know that putin is a control freak at this point

[@Daniel4646]

@@lifyzen5692 Steven Segal, in any case.

[@teneclarusslavicus5390]

Better than any "friend of the west". We had one in 90s. No thanks, no more. Big Brother would be better, than any western puppet from this so-called opposition from fbc and other crap

[@nickkerr8775]

There no different than ours , the KGB & FSB are just the CIA,NSA , DEA, FBI, ATF ,Marshals and a over a dozen of our different military intelligence groups all in one group.

[@Maplelust]

huh?.. it's way different. they operate more like terrorists. they're far more inhumane. plus the CIA isn't trying to protect a regime. the KGB (and now FSB) was there to protect their own communist ideology. you're just a parrot.

[@teneclarusslavicus5390]

​​@@Maplelustyou are living in an imaginary world. Just like our liberals do, who worship your regimes and also worship people like you, saying that western people have a critical thinking and they don't fall for propaganda. I look at people like you, and I see that these guys were fooled. And to the topic, read something about CIA secret jails. CIA comitted a lot of crimes in it's history. Just like any secret service. And lastly, CIA does protects the regime. The difference is that it protects it from outer enemies, because it is an intelligence service after all. Russia has SVR and GRU for that matter. FSB is a service of internal security and counterintelligence, more like American FBI, which protects a regime. By the way, it's really funny how you confuse SVR for FSB and yet trying to say something as if you were an expert. That's all you western guys are about: you know nothing, yet you open your mouth. Even your propaganda does it.

[@soupthesart]

they sure change name alot

[@giovannigiorgio2262]

ofc putin no ordinary man

[@user-bw6kr7ny8e]

This video is sponsored by CIA)

[@shroominz9471]

Putin in, Putout

[@mavssami41]

Mccarthy was right

[@metalcleric2567]

Can we please wrap McCarthy in wire and some magnets. Because now we have socialist and communist in the government at least get electricity from him

[@brunotheboomer2386]

Now do the fbi

[@mrdavi5064]

4:15 protestors hold their flag upside down 😅

[@Justin-pe9cl]

It means a country is in distress.

[@boburrahimov]

Uzbekistan is first🇺🇿👊

[@xtrdd]

Sigma intelligence service

[@Wade-vo6zx]

Reminds me A LOT of the usa 🏳️‍🌈✊🏿 today!!!!!!!

[@teapotserving6975]

Edit: Shamil basayev did not commit beslan school siege or moscow Theater siege, but claimed involuntary responsibility for it to convince the Russia people that he is still fighting against them unless they finally withdrew from Chechnya. Plus, I am happy how Russia people are getting hammered in the Ukraine's conflict.

[@bolobalaman]

Russia never change

[@barda9748876850]

Us also

[@teapotserving6975]

@@barda9748876850 Nobody carss.

[@mikesiciliano210]

McCarthy was right.

[@Mr.Sadist77]

Boycott Russia

[@pelmen1620]

Boycott Ukraine

[@kongvinter33]

Vlad wears 15 cm high heels.

[@mistersm]

😂😂😂

[@jonothankaplan]

Now do the CIA

[@Yashuop]

Claim your “here within an hour” ticket right here🏆

[@sadguuy]

claimed

[@fynnott8479]

🎉🎉I calmed it🎉🎉

[@thepothead4208]

Claimed🎉🎉

[@coleman4840]

Go away

[@alessandrocanale6189]

Claimed bruv

[@Lettuce_gamingchannel]

Hi

[@masterroshi2158]

I Dont care the speaker at 9:21 he talks a bit to fast in my opinion and I feel like I'm listening to a bot i liked the documentary feel of the first half tho

[@cjclark1208]

Russian intelligence described by its greatest adversary on the world stage atm, would take this info with a hefty grain of salt.

[@deathstrack]

Found the tankie

[@kingofcrimson4177]

@@deathstrack not everyone that points out blatant baises is a tankie. Unless you’d like to forget how the CIA created Islamic Fundamentalist Iran, by previously kicking out a democratic government and installing an authoritarian Shah? That just 1 example. I could go on and on.

[@Ohmygodstfu2045]

@@kingofcrimson4177The moment you resort to whataboutism you’ve already lost the argument.

[@juanspicywiener]

Mccarthy was mostly right

[@Mr.Funnyman273]

202k views, 5.5k likes and just 360 comments. What, you couldn't crank up the bots for those too?

[@user-st2eh3gz6k]

It is strange that nothing is said about torture and murder in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons, or about the fact that the FBI, CIA and NSA still catch participants in the storming of the capitol on January 6 (called "terrorism" in the United States, and the European Union did not support it for some reason) and then they are tortured at the same time, but when the Kiev rada was stormed in late 2013 and early 2014 in Ukraine, it was democracy)))... oh, I forgot "this is different" as the American State Department says)))

[@Ohmygodstfu2045]

😂

[@user-st2eh3gz6k]

He he)))

[@theiconicshow7326]

who would have guessed that a video about the history of russian state police won't discuss american agencies smh copious amounts of copium

[@loricagardener4826]

See “Gadianton Robbers “. It has happened in the americas for thousands of years.

[@vox7441]

+15 for proruzzian doshirak, aslo, Kyiv*

[@KendlickLama]

Spies are spicyyy, ayyyyyy

[@teleikegaisct-bi1cs]

bmakopwtu

[@justinambru8529]

Please more history, less russo-ukranian content.

[@misterbig9025]

What job did Putin do in Germany?

[@homelandfighters8541]

Ya Ya Ya...Same as u.s. prison at guantanamo