The Structure of KGB - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the structure of the Soviet KGB.
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[@YourLocalLeadFarmer]

My Grandpa was a former KGB Agent that actually risked his life to bring my Grandmother and my mother over to the United States, they eventually captured him in Vancouver, Washington in the late 60's and executed him back in the Soviet Union for treason. Till this very day I have his watch that my grandmother gave me as a heirloom.

[@luke.4317]

traitor destroye, change name cringy

[@hararehaile2813]

@@luke.4317 Family comes before the state and before anything else I respect that man

[@comradestalin9444]

@@hararehaile2813 Russia doesn’t forgive or forget treason

[@Zapper-kq1zg]

@@hararehaile2813 государство важнее семьи

[@scottkrater2131]

@@comradestalin9444 Since when is wanting to live in a free, prosperous society treason? Should he have stuck around to execute so called enemies of the State? Treason against the people he's supposed to be protecting?

[@matthewmoses4222]

KGB/Soviet and Chinese influence in African decolonization would make a few decent episodes.

[@LocalHeretic-ck1kd]

Yeah, | would like to see an episode about that.

[@hasselnttper3730]

Agreed, even though many of the African nations went from little freedom to much less freedom (probably because of USSR and PRC meddling, like in Rodesia where the Soviets supported the ZAPU and the Chinese supported the ZANU-PF).

[@Marinealver]

Can't forget Cuba

[@jameslegrand848]

@@Marinealver people always tend to forget how HUGE Cuba was in sending it's troops to train and even fight with fellow communists

[@Marinealver]

@@jameslegrand848 Che Guevara was very active, everyone thought of him as just your run of the mill South American rebel but he went across the globe and wore many hats.

[@Allofmynamestaken]

It would be fascinating to hear about the high ranking American intelligence agents that were turned by the Soviet Union. And their impact.

[@Normalguy1690]

Any sever cases are probably still classified today

[@geordiejones5618]

@@Normalguy1690 no doubt. I'm sure both sides had some embarassing cases of double agents or otherwise who either went under the radar for too long and did some real damage.

[@animefan2196]

If you want to learn about interesting legendary spy, learn about Eli Cohen. Is a legendary israelie spy from the Mossad who almost becam prime minister in syria. There is also a Neflix serie call SPY about this story.

[@retardationnation869]

@@geordiejones5618 well we have officially recognized kgb defectors.

[@marinazagrai1623]

Allofmy...from what I know, CIA operatives (the numbers are up in the air, so to speak) really envied the ultimate power the NKGB/KGB had compared to the checks and balances the US has and had during the 60s. As to foreign agents placed in DC and having been turned into agents/double agents, because certainly the Cambrige 5 couldn't have been the only ones!

[@valentinstoyanov304]

I'd like to learn more about the rivalry between KGB and GRU. At least in my country (Bulgaria) this is a subject to debates...

[@Locomotion-uz4ly]

There is no rivalry. Their functions did not overlap and the CPSU made sure to keep the two completely separate from one another.

[@boutepe]

@@Locomotion-uz4ly Of course there has been rivalry, quite fierce even in certain periods. Right after the revolution Cheka even infiltrated the GRU often and in 1919 it was decided the GRU Director had to be a Chekist. A similar rivalry still exist today between FSB/SVR and GRU. For example this book has some good insights on this issue: www.goodreads.com/book/show/769323.KGB

[@Locomotion-uz4ly]

@@boutepe , there was no GRU in 1919. The CheKa initially pushed to be the do-all, be-all security superstructure. They were strongly against letting the Red Army have its own intelligence assets. Instead the CheKa was supposed to conduct military intelligence in the interest of the army. They failed miserably at that and the Bolsheviks almost lost the civil war in its beginning because of that. Dzerzhinsky's people were much preoccupied with exterminating the ideoligical enemies of the regime, so fulfilling the inteligence requirement of the Red Army was barely a distant afterthought. The military commanders were forced to improvise, fielding their own intel networks. This was against the government policy, but Lenin tolerated it as an emergency measure, to the fierce protests of the state security organs against that infringement upon their functions. After Red Army was allowed to take over military intelligence in 1921, when the Supreme Soviet has transfered the task from the the CheKa to the military. As for later years there was no rivalry. There could not be one, when the two institutions were in different universes. On paper the KGB was administratively two levels above the GRU in the government structure. The KGB was the "Commitee for State Security of the Council of Ministers", equal in rank to the Ministry of Defence. The General Staff was an agency under the MoD and the GRU was a department of the General Staff. In fact the KGB acted as an agency of the Central Commitee of the Politburo of the CPSU. The Central Commitee was the highest authority in the Soviet Union - it fulfilled the role of President in a presidential republic, but it was a collective organ. The Chairman of the KGB was BY DEFAULT a full Member of the Central Commitee, therefore the status of the KGB equaled that of the Soviet government AS A WHOLE and on the rare occasions, when a new Prime Minister has been appointed and he held the rank of Member Candidate of the Central Commitee, the KGB ACTUALLY OUTRANKED THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT. The CC consisted of Members, who had the authority to vote on the policies of the USSR and Member Candidates could express their opinion on those policies, but COULD NOT VOTE ON THEM. There were times when Chekists took over the GRU, NEVER the other way around. This happened as early as the Stalinist repressions in 1937 (Gendin) and also in 1958 (Serov) during the power struggle between Khrushchev and Zhukov. The reasoning was that the full obedience of the Soviet armed forces was put in question, so the Central Commitee used the NKVD, later the KGB, to keep them under control. This perfectly illustrates the inferior position of the GRU. The GRU had absolutely no control over the KGB. On the other hand the latter was entrusted with counter-intelligence in the GRU and could at any given time act against a military intelligence officer on accusations fabricated by the Chekists themselves. Moreover the KGB kept the military under control not only through its Special Departments (counter-intelligence), embedded in the Soviet Army, but also through its own Government Communications Troops (Войска правительственной связи). These signals units of the KGB provided the communication lines between the MoD and the GS on one hand and the military districts and fleets on the other. So the military was under total Chekist overwatch and Lubyanka had a tap on all the official communications between the high ranking officers and could at any point present unofficial communications as a conspiracy to commit a coup. There was no rivalry, but an animosity, based on these dynamics. The notion how the KGB had its own clandestine structures abroad, the GRU had its own clandestine structures abroad, so they somehow backed each other up, is false and silly to a fault. They played completely different roles. The KGB's First Main Directorate was POLITICAL intelligence. It provided the Central Commitee with the information about the actions of other GOVERNMENTS, so the USSR enacted its own policies accordingly. The GRU was MILITARY intelligence. It provided the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff with information about the plans and capabilities of other ARMED FORCES, so the General Staff of the Soviet Army produced its operational plans accordingly. The information that the KGB's FMD has obtained was hardly (if at all) of any actionable use to the military and vice-versa the information obtained by the GRU was barely useful to the Central Commitee. Not only were the two intelligence agencies tasked with different missions and guarded very jealously their turf from each other, but any resources, dedicated from one agency towards the mission of the other agency, were resources diverted from the pursuit of its own goals. Heads could and did roll for that. You really need to do far deeper research, than ocasionally mentioning a book.

[@boutepe]

@@Locomotion-uz4ly Soviet military intelligence was founded officially in 1918. Before that Trotsky formed a less formal predessor during the war with the Whites. I mentioned just one book, could mention much more material but its KZbin dude. Nonetheless since you aren't even aware of Mi history in SU suggest you go do your homework first. Enjoy!

[@boutepe]

@@Locomotion-uz4ly p.s. You may wanna start looking up why November 5 still is Military Intelligence Day in Russia.

[@KiraC-q8g]

The reputation of the KGB within the Soviet Union was almost mythical. For example, it was not an uncommon assumption that the KGB had secret technology that allowed them to read their prisoners' minds. A Soviet joke perfectly illustrates the KGB's reputation: A man calls the KGB from a street payphone. 'Is it the KGB?' 'Yes" 'You are bad at your job' He then moves to the another payphone a block away. 'Is it the KGB?' 'Yes' 'You are bad at your job' He then goes to a third payphone. 'You are bad at your job' Suddenly he feels someone tap him on his shoulder: 'Well, we do what we can. Come with us, tovarishch'

[@The__Leo69]

KGB and India deserves a special episode. Even the book 'KGB and the battle for the third world' has two chapters titled 'Our special relationship with India' where the author goes on to say 'out of all, India was the best example of KGB infiltrations in the third world governments'.

[@icq814]

I would like to see some episodes about the Soviet Merchant Marine: how the sailors were paid, the special stores they could shop at, how the Merchant Marine supported the Navy, Merchant Marine during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@brianrunyon266]

Awesome work. Say, think you can do a video devoted to Yuri Andropov's time as KGB Director?

[@ruturajshiralkar5566]

Yuri Andropov replaced Vladimir Semichastny as head of KGB. Leonid Brezhnev greatly trusted Andropov, who after Brezhnev became senile, lead a powerful Soviet Old Guard consisting of Dimitri Ustinov and Andrei Gromyko. Andropov ordered the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, influenced the Egyptians in Invading Israel (Yom-Kippur War).

[@AlexGFrank]

I made a report on him in Uni's history class, was something like 30-page deal in compacted form. Could translate it for you if you want. He's done some very nasty and interesting things

[@brianrunyon266]

@@AlexGFrank Have read about some of them. Didn't have have disidants put into mental hospitals?

[@AlexGFrank]

@@brianrunyon266 it was basically done under the directive from central government, as far as i know. What surprises me, actually, is that Andropov's KGB was relatively mild towards creatives and other intellectual elites, who have shown themselves as dissidents. Basically instead of being forcibly "treated" for "delusional psychosis" like it was done with party workers and laborers/administrative staff, they were being offered a choice. Either shut up and/or embrace pro-soviet views while being handsomly compensated for it, or be thrown out of the country with no passport and no money and watch their back for the rest of their life in fear of being too negative on the soviets or saying too much. Reports on a couple of such operations were made public in the 90s, usually these people were arranged into groups of 15-20 and illegally transported over the border into Finland, Western Germany and other countries Eastern Block had a border with. Some lucky ones got to board the plane to the States or to Israel, but that was extremely rare. Though it must be said, that the KGB's method of communicating information about this was quite intrusive and barbaric, so a couple of people had strokes just from the scare alone. And it can be understood. Imagine coming home after work late in the evening only to discover, that your wife and kids are at some entertainment event, and there's a "sharply and dangerous-looking well-built guy in a mouse-colored suit with a briefcase" (direct quote) sitting in your living room, saying he only wants to talk.

[@danielryan9126]

I would like that

[@Martijn_Steinpatz]

Fun fact: Beria betrayed his own boss, Yezhov, in the thirties. So call it karma.

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

Beria also had a rather unpleasant habit of thinking with the head between his legs and not the head on his shoulders.

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

@Danny Treffers He would have his goon squad kidnap women and girls off of the street and rape them and afterwards give them flowers to try to say that what happened was consensual. It eventually came back to bite him on the ass after Stalin kicked the bucket.

[@Martijn_Steinpatz]

Stalin famously said to his daughter to never go alone with 'that man', which should tell you plenty.

[@oaples8790]

wasn't their a theory that he somehow was involved with the death of Stalin?

[@Martijn_Steinpatz]

@@oaples8790 After the heart attack (?) Beria might have turned Stalins body in a way that could have hasten the latter his demise, but that might also have been made up by the enemies of the former. Interesting fact, Mao's last wife has been accused of the same thing.

[@illjan]

But seriously, you definetly should do something with the guys at time ghost history

[@LukoHevia]

The most ambitious crossover in history

[@hasselnttper3730]

I thought they had something to do with each other

[@LukoHevia]

@@hasselnttper3730 The Cold War was probably very influenced by the work of Spartacus and Indy (The Great War, Time Ghost, WW2)

[@Schmidty1]

@@hasselnttper3730 The cold war is run by the people at Kings and Generals. It is their second channel.

[@lovelynightmare1485]

@Jan P It’s not happening. Indy and Spartacus feel The Cold War ripped them off. community.timeghost.tv/t/the-cold-war-channel/1423

[@connarcomstock161]

"What happened when Stalin died?" *Insert Death of Stalin here*

[@isaacvincent8443]

While my family and I lived in the (then) USSR for a short time, many locals (once they felt they could trust us anyway) talked about how the KGB held a small number of tactical nukes. I wonder if you guys have heard anything which could confirm or deny this?

[@spqr1945]

Its only rumours, all nukes were under control of RVSN - Rocket troops and Ministry of defence.

[@ignaciomunizdiaz5194]

@@spqr1945 Don't be a rumour. The kgb and gru spetsnaz have the RYa-6 nuclear wallet

[@Zadrigo]

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial for young generations. Let's hope we will be more successful!

[@JoinMeInDeathBaby]

Who is "we"?

[@Drolgh101]

@@JoinMeInDeathBabyWhy the underground movement for the revival of the Soviet Union of course! Rejoice Comrade! Second time lucky!

[@JoinMeInDeathBaby]

@@Drolgh101 Here in Russia we call this people nutjobs

[@CoramDeogenua]

@@JoinMeInDeathBaby dont worry, WE are going to stack their communist bodies in ditches.

[@DinoCism]

I would love to see a video like this about the history of the CIA by a soviet historian lol.

[@scottdodge6979]

There are post Cold War interviews with Russian military and they are quite an eye opener. They were more on edge then we ever were lol

[@w7lves]

@@scottdodge6979 please link. I’d really like to see this

[@wfdix1]

That would be an interesting take, but not nearly as much fun without the purges.

[@jsmitty4675]

@@scottdodge6979 that would a beautiful day they keep any real information under raps

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Face Of Actor Kratos

[@cmck17]

an elaboration on the KGB's department of 'special objects' would be an excellent episode, as there doesn't seem to be much information on it.

[@lukestryce1465]

I really like that some times show you from the side, make you look more professional, very well thought, this small details that make me like this chanell so much

[@Marinealver]

Been waiting for this!

[@tommasoleonardi8535]

The camera used on these videos is insane, it somehow looks way better than 1080p

[@TitansQuarterback16]

Solid solid content. Thank you for the information. I’d love more information on the Cambridge spy ring. Keep up the amazing work here!

[@stephenkneller6435]

You should cover the KGB birth of the antinuclear and Green movements, which exist to this day. The fact that they still exist, and with much support, may prove these movements are the KGB’s most successful operations to undermine the West.

[@muricans4ukraine]

Green is the new Red.

[@BountyFlamor]

Speaking of the King of Corn: I hope you'll cover the Virgin Lands Campaign.

[@lhpoetry]

Yes but the poor environment...

[@teme82]

I would like to see an episode of KGB actions and mingling in the Finnish political circles.

[@hung-upear2659]

I'd want to see the episode about CIA vs KGB information war in Finland

[@ausaskar]

KGB tainted the ES supply.

[@kgb2647]

Yes we will create more episodes.

[@NorthVandea]

Would love to hear more about the KGB's involvement with anti-Pinochet operations, had no idea they were involved.

[@lupen_rein]

especially considering that many western leftists are primarily using the Pinochet example against the United States to this very day. A famous German political satirist for example always likes to talk about Pinochet whenever he talks about the US.

[@jasonkinzie8835]

Fascinating video! You should do a similar video on the CIA.

[@igormarinkovic1531]

CIA is a joke

[@gojo76]

Could you talk about the cold war Japan ? You know , how they became an economic power,its military ,there isn't that much info about it

[@lhpoetry]

It would be really interesting to cover the McArthur years and the transition to civilian government, as well as the ideological controls, which were maybe less strong than in Korea, but nevertheless there.

[@TheFirebird123456]

U could get decent info about the economic growth. Look up developmental state and there is a wealth of info there. I am not too sure about the military as it wasnt my area of study and japan post ww2 has had a very complicated relationship with thier military starting with the fact they couldnt call it a military.

[@ihatecabbage7270]

and being crippled by the USA? Sure they will, right?

[@gojo76]

@@ihatecabbage7270 what is that supposed to mean ? The US ... no , McArthur shapped Japan into the country it is today ,and they called him a madman and disgraced him ...

[@lhpoetry]

@@ihatecabbage7270: Actually, despite some ideological training wheels/thought control, the USA's treatment of Japan and Germany (and Korea, although Korea was not an enemy combatant state) post-WWII is exceptional in that they created two of the wealthiest, most prosperous modern states in the world. I don't know how much was contributed to rebuilding Japan, but in the end, the US decided the old addage "friends close, enemies closer," was the best policy to make sure Japan and Germany didn't become imperial threats again. And thus, became deeply economically entertwined in them with lots mutually beneficial trade. Perfect? Of course not. And sure, there are still US bases in both countries, but they are quite close allies. Germany and Japan have been voices for peace, democracy, and global understanding for most of the past 60 years much more strongly than the US itself.

[@pingpong7617]

I love this channel.

[@TheColdWarTV]

thank you!

[@pingpong7617]

@@TheColdWarTV 👍🏻♥️

[@alexandriat5929]

This was beautifully concise and well structured. Thank you so much this was a very good topic and useful knowledge, considering today's situations.

[@christopherwood9009]

Wrong. The NKVD was the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs. It was the interior ministry. It did have a department called the GUGB, the Main Directorate for State Security, which became it's own Commissariat as try NKGB. It then was refromed into a ministry as the MGB (Ministry for State Security, while the NKVD became the MVD - Ministry for Internal Affairs), and then the KGB (Committee for State Security). It was then called the MSB (Interrepublican Security Service) before Russia declared independence and became the FSB (Federal Security Service) as it is today.

[@jordengg3629]

The person at 1:17 is genrikh yagoda, the first head of the NKVD

[@matthewssilva4781]

Also a warlord in TNO

[@matthewssilva4781]

5:26 is the Ordosocialist guy in TNO

[@nonyabisnas]

I wanna know more about all subjects, please do not ever end this series

[@seanhenderson7864]

very interesting. Would be good if you could do a video of the GRU, and explore why the KGB survived as the FSB while the GRU ended in 1991. Keep up the good work.

[@fullmetalroyal1216]

I friggin love this channel

[@whiskeyactual.]

In the movie Child 44 Tom Hard plays an MGB officer. It's a pretty great movie that didn't get much exposure.

[@stormtrooper9404]

I have seen the movie! Not worth of a fuse! However they(Holywood) certainly have a touch(propaganda) to tarnish even the good things of SSSR. Starting with a gray-ish de-saturated color from which SSSR/Russia is always presented(subconcious suggestion that they are bad guys), to outright propaganda! Well on-topic if we put aside those stupid movies, KGB did in fact played a role in internal security. They were so effective in helping the regular Police(Милициа), that the life was serene and safe, while in the West selling drogs , shootings and armed robberies were part of everyday life for most people!

[@DoomTrooper90]

The KGB's "Lightning Devices" buried across most of Europe would be quite something to know about. Document Piles and Devices still booby-trapped and left across much of Europe. Often with fatal results to the unwary ones who stumble upon them.

[@Eamonshort1]

I didn't realise the soviets had their own Operation Gladio, cool thanks I'm gonna look into that

[@IronJeff54321]

The KGB does not have time for documentaries, so it’s good thing you’re doing

[@grizzerotwofour7858]

Keep up the great work!

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nicely informative video. great job. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[@TheColdWarTV]

Thank you very much!

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@TheColdWarTV----Your welcome. I've been subscribed to this channel for several months. And it's been quite informative. I've also been subscribed to Kings and Generals too. Have a nice day or night wherever you are.

[@BiharyGabor]

2:20 the renaming of people's comissariates to ministries was neither an upgrading nor a reorganization. It was what it looks: renaming. The government became called Council of Ministers instead of Council of PCs, PCs (narkoms) were renamed to ministers and the agencies headed by them (narkomats) became ministries. Actual reorganization also occured, some mergers and splits, but renaming was just renaming.

[@kikiphoe8380]

Please do a video about lesser known agencies such as SVR and GRU

[@the.parks.of.no.return]

Google : yuri bezmenov Demoralise Destabilise Crisis Normalisation Ideological subversion When the soviet union fell this psychological warfare programme continued under its own steam. Following thought: If the soviet union had lasted another 20 years we would all be speaking Russian.

[@MrMattumbo]

Well you do have a former KGB officer running the country, not surprising certain programs continued after the fall.

[@johnchristiancanda3320]

@@MrMattumbo Please read Anatoliy Golitsyn's "New Lies for the Old" and "The Perestroika Deception".

[@MrMattumbo]

@@johnchristiancanda3320 Which should I start with? They're both rather expensive and Amazon doesn't sell a kindle version sadly. Also, if I can recommend you a book in a similar vein (though more military-focused) you should check out "Spetsnaz: The inside story of the Soviet Special Forces" by Viktor Suvorov. He's similar to Yuri Bezminov in his disdain and honesty regarding his former organization and their tactics. It also goes into the more terroristic side of Spetsnaz's mission and touches on their subversion plots and methods for gaining foreign agents and how they would be used (then disposed of callously). It's a great read for anyone interested in the USSR from a military, political, and social perspective as well as providing some insight into the potential tactics of Russia today.

[@elmersbalm5219]

that's basic operating procedure of states since inception. The joke is on you. The country with the most options in this regard is the US.

[@buffaloc20]

That dude was a anti-semite I'm not going to listen to a dude who was always right

[@TullyBascombe]

Did he say "Make sure you have REPRESSED the bell button?"

[@MrTStat]

I do not condone the repression of the bell button

[@christopherconard2831]

Previously it was the Like button. But enemies of the state must be rooted out wherever they hide.

[@dmgill83]

I thought I heard that too. 😆

[@pahunter3]

I would like to see more on the involvement of the KGB with the anti-Vietnam War protests.

[@andraslibal]

He pronounced Budapest perfectly

[@DrVictorVasconcelos]

Honestly, the NKGB dissolution in 1941 sounds like Stalin going “Okay, gotta stop playing games with Beria for the time being. I need his loyalty”, rather than an actual concern about centralizing decision-making.

[@josedavidgarcesceballos7]

Please keep going over intelligence agencies, and thanks for this one.

[@raulduke6105]

Excellent

[@jamesheracklis4020]

@thecoldwar can you do a video on the GRU, its role, and how it differed from the KGB? Haven't really seen a video that discusses that and have been kind of confused about it.

[@theodorossarafis7370]

very nice video thank you.

[@lhpoetry]

So: 1)the Angolan Civil War (By far the most fascinating hot war of the Cold War, since China was a third side for a while and the Cubans were on the ground in force). 2)The Civil War in Mozambique. 3)South African Special Forces in the Cold War 4)Assassinations done or supported by the KGB (And of course the CIA) as well as Spy wars/Hot ops 5)Philippines Guerrilla Warfare 6)The Malaysian Civil War/Split with Singapore (Found it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXPRiIVro9t3i6c) 7)Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Sandinistas. 8)Ops on American/British Soil, Stuff like what was in the show the Americans 9)As someone else mentioned, Agitprop campaigns in general. 10)It'd also be interesting to see some heroes of the CIA and KGB highlighted, ones who either did the right things, pulled off amazing stunts, etc. Less KGB oriented, but Lumumba, how the Belgians maintained a certain status quo in the independent Congo.

[@oaples8790]

what? malaysian civil war, wasn't it a peaceful split with Singapore?

[@lhpoetry]

@@oaples8790: It's called the Malayan Emergency, they already did a great video on it that explains it better than I could. Singapore was initially part of Malaysia, but there were lots of riots, and it became clear to the wealthy, somewhat liberal Chinese and ethnically diverse Singapore that they were not very welcome in the new Malaysia. Divorce due to irreconciliable differences. Many formulations (which remain prominently displayed in the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur) of early Malay nationalism/state-building post WWII formulated a Malaysia in which only Malay muslims (49% of the population) would be considered citizens. So Chinese, Indians, Christians (most of Sarawak) were excluded from the narrative, some of whom (Mostly Chinese in the Center and North from what I understood) formed communist guerrila groups that fought for nearly 10 years in the jungles. To this day it remains an interesting situation where almost all the wealthiest people in Malaysia are Chinese (And many of the rubber plantation owners live in Singapore) but most of the politicians are generally Malay, and well, the National Museum is right next to the National Mosque, and the museum frames history as beginning in Malaysia in earnest when Islam arrives. Here is the Malayan Emergency Video kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXPRiIVro9t3i6c

[@frankryan2505]

No mention of SMERSH, probably the coolest sounding spy organisation out there.

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

This reminds me... I never finished _The Americans_ after finally getting into it. Gonna have to go back to that soon.

[@lerirejaune4528]

Thank you for all your videos dear cold war channel team. How about an episode on the covert war between the KGB and the CIA in Laos after 1954 since you already did something on the French indochina war, that could be a good prelude to your most awaited treatment of the Vietnam War.

[@gman93025]

Operation Toucan would be an interesting episode. Maybe I'm alone, but I've always thought of Latin America as a sideshow to the main theatres of the Cold War, Asia and Africa. Especially since the hot proxy wars happened mostly in Africa and Asia.

[@zhubajie6940]

Operation Toucan would be interesting because I believe there were no good guys in the power struggle for Chile.

[@pikminlord343]

A great video!

[@UpcycleElectronics]

So, guys, I know the basic history of Silicon Valley with its roots at Stanford and military research. The relocation of research away from the politics of New England and broader US East Coast lead to the opportunity for venture capital to step in, and is at the core of the shift from a military economy to the economy that won the war. While silicon is just one small part of the real tech of Silicon Valley, I would like to hear your take on how the Soviets responded to Silicon Valley on every layer (political/economy/manufacturing/physical devices they were forced to copy or "acquire," similar to how the US bought proxy titanium ore for the SR71 type stuff). I think you guys could tell both stories in parallel and in depth. In my opinion, the Cold War's biggest conflict happened in Silicon Valley. It's probably the only battlefield in history where the location had a net positive effect on the civilian population. If you look up the Computer History Museum YT channel, there are a bunch of individual (long) interviews of people from this era. Unfortunately it's difficult to find specific instances that delve into this subject based on searching. I've watched several interviews expecting to hear about early chip fabs and companies started in the Valley, then was treated to the broader reflections on the military funding roots and transition to venture capital. Many times it was obvious to me that the interviewer had been tasked with coaxing out the black ops history as much as possible. It's a very unexpected aspect of history that is largely under appreciated. The CHM interviews with panels are good too. They usually have the venture capitalist, head of the corporation/company, and the leading researcher(s) all in one place hashing out the history as they remember it. If nothing else, it's fascinating to see 3-6 dudes (PC) arguing about specific event-dates from several decades ago...while I can't recall what I ate for lunch last week :-)

[@1mxtp]

Soviets responded by taking a look at the origin of those technologies in development and did the same. They stole them from germany. Up to this day startups in germany have to work in highest secrecy to prevent theft. Read about rocket internet. It's a german copy of cia's concept of scanning the globe for new ideas, copy them and feed them with lots of venture capital before the original has even a chance to develop.

[@branon6565]

Upcycle Electronics ....net positive result? Are you stoned or something?! I'm a 10th generation born and raised in the capital of Silicon Valley, that being San Jose, and the net result of the "Silicon Cold War victory" was in the influx of worthless, scumbag liberal leftists who have done nothing but help to destroy this once great city. The allowing of illegals to just run amok and wreck our neighborhoods is disgusting, the gangs and drugs those liberal pieces of garbage have allowed to arrive at and flourish in our neighborhoods is as anti-American as it gets, and after serving two combat tours in Iraq, I'm ready to use what I learned there on the liberals here, not even kidding a little bit.... #DeathToLiberals #DeathToLiberalism

[@medusaathenabeatszeus3915]

Could you please make a episode on the Czechoslovakian KGB network. It would be amazing, since I am highly interested in that area.

[@WallNutBreaker524]

Very Interesting.

[@veiko23]

There are lot if “dark” areas regarding Juri Andropov. For example, he died as Party leader from poisoning; he decided the Soviet Afganistan occupation behind Breznev and politburo. WhenBreznev finally was informed, he got mad to Andropov but somehow he still continued in his post, etc.

[@Grenadier311]

The CIA features a video about Andropov on their YT channel.

[@keitatsutsumi]

5:35 wish you guys elaborated on that :/

[@Artur_M.]

Being Polish I know him mostly as the one directly involved in the persecution of members of the Home Army and the Polish Secret State in general. If I'm not mistaken he also oversaw the brutal mass deportations of the Crimean Tatars, as well as Chechens and other Caucasian peoples. He was also in Hungary in 1956. I don't know anything about his personal life though.

[@kgbfiles5713]

@@Artur_M. Several years ago, a rather interesting book consisting of Serov's diaries, "Notes from a Suitcase", was published. Some historians doubt its authenticity - supposedly the granddaughter recently accidentally found the manuscript in the house. Nobody saw the original manuscript. There is a version that the granddaughter herself wrote this based on the stories of her grandfather.

[@Artur_M.]

@@kgbfiles5713 Thanks for the information!

[@robZzdaboss]

Leon Trotsky's real name was Lev Bronstein, you should probably mention these things.

[@christopherwood9009]

Why do you pronounce Nikita Khrushchev's name as ?

[@garryw.robertsmusicandmore2359]

Please do an episode on the Walker Family Spy Ring. KGB had a role in that.

[@ozgeozcelik8921]

A whole episode about the assassination of Bandera would be awesome

[@AeneasGemini]

The hardest part of this video was obviously saying Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности, thumbs up for the attempt

[@TheColdWarTV]

I think it only took about 8,221,423 takes to get it even vaguely correct :D

[@CuestaBroadcasting]

You forgot to mention the ChK and its leader, Felix Derzhinsky, whose statue was the first to come down after the KGB was dissolved.

[@williamhernandez3201]

Thanks. I'm interested in finding about Operation Tucan

[@josephtelha1358]

Does anyone know the name of the music at the end of the video? It is really amazing. I have been looking for it and found non.

[@darthtrudeau4907]

I can never remember how to pronounce the full name of the KGB 😂

[@phil4863]

Learn Russian first

[@normanschlongdongovic4124]

KGB, Russian in full Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

[@stephen9869]

Very enlightening, but I suspect you have not told us everything... We have ways of making people talk...

[@Marinealver]

I see what you did there.

[@Rohilla313]

Lol. Nice one😆😆😆

[@emilped]

What is this a reference to?

[@brandongreen5884]

Aldrich Ames would be a good "case" to investigate. Also perhaps "Falcon and the Snowman" as well.

[@dangle3392]

A video about the Soviet's Naval power please.

[@matthewssilva4781]

5:26 Ordosocialist gang rise up

[@clydecessna737]

Hi, I am interested in the mechanisms of repression of internal dissent and how these levers were reduced under Gorbachev leading to the overthrow of the system.

[@nataliejarosz9360]

When you consider things like the overall awfulness of the KGB and the disturbing past of Bandera, it reminds you of how often there's no truly ethical side in this kind of history.

[@iwantcrawfish6110]

I see that vault boy chillin at the radio 😘

[@kalai2711]

Please do a episode on Stasi....

[@mr.n0ne]

great!!!

[@warmonger8799]

EPIC 🤛🏻🤛🏻🤛🏻

[@quik478]

KGB won when Andropov became a general secretary of the USSR and finally when they collapsed the USSR itself.

[@sefer1377]

Prague Spring would be a great video 👍

[@Bigboy-wl4gj]

I will like to take a moment and say I have the same moon landing lego set. Good choice very good choice.

[@mns8732]

Will do a segment of what it was like to grow up during the cold war in America? Especially in and around DC.?

[@ethanlynch8275]

I have heard there was an outer KGB and inner KGB. Did such a paradigm exist? Could you make an episode on it?

[@MrVeryfrost]

I am getting confused. I always thought that GRU and KGB were separate organizations?! Wasn't specnaz a GRU's division and foreign military surveillance not GRU job to do ?

[@TheColdWarTV]

KGB and GRU ran parallel to each other in a lot of ways and they did duplicate a lot of functions. Not at all efficient but all part of the rivalry between the military and the KGB. As for Spetznaz (Special Forces), while most units were GRU, the KBG had its own special forces teams, largely dealing with counter-terrorism issues.

[@TheManinBlack9054]

Spetsnaz are just special forces. It's not a particular unity, rather just a form of organization.

[@KiraC-q8g]

The KGB's Spetsnaz was called Alpha, KGB successors kept the units after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Belarusian KGB Spetsnaz was recently involved in suppressing the protests in Belarus, where they shot a journalist with a rubber bullet.

[@ivarkich1543]

Do GRU.

[@khalidibnmuneer5488]

I would like you to cover Active Measures, a political weapon employed by the KGB.

[@wayneha]

Great vid. Would it be worth exploring the topic further, i.e. discuss the cheka/chekism?

[@valentinstoyanov304]

Note that the loyalty to the Party is before the loyalty to the Motherland.

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

The Oleg Penkovsky case sounds very interesting. It is not a topic I've heard of before.

[@sgtmayhem7567]

Check out the pictures of the Cambridge 5, the guy all the way on the right looks just like Tom Cruise.

[@christopherwood9009]

I thought that membership in the KGB was restricted to party members only. Unless by its leadership was "regularly filled by men from the party", you mean party officials: i.e. members of the Central Committee SU; as opposed to people from executive levels of the KGB itself?

[@Thought_Criminality]

Please do an episode about look magazine and the story of Yuri bezmenov.

[@dbfbobt]

Would you do a presentation about John Anthony Walker interaction with KGB?

[@spicyLEGO]

Please make a video on GRU Division P

[@jerrynelson5289]

Cheka 1917-1924 OGPU 1925-1934 NKVD 1934-1945 MVD 1945-1954 KGB 1954-1991.

[@jayfrank1913]

When will "merch" become merchandise again?

[@NorPacAdventures]

Please do a video about Stepan Bandera

[@joseninguem8537]

Make a video about Stasi

[@pybro4755]

operation toucan would be pretty cool to learn about