What is the KGB and Why is it so Feared?

[@modelermark172]

There is a story about an Egyptian Tomb being discovered when Nasser was President of Egypt. The Egyptian Archaeologists were unsure of the age of the tomb, and the visiting Soviet KGB offered to take a look at it. The next day, the KGB informed the Egyptians that the mummy was 3,247 years old. When asked how they knew, the KGB simply said, "The mummy confessed."

[@chris.76256]

It got scared back to life, you couldn't blame him

[@MarceMarcus]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo ok

[@mirceazaharia2094]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo *gently dabs on you*

[@OriginalFallofMind]

😄 good one

[@zxrcanada]

lolllll

[@michaelvillarama7584]

Can we take the time to applaud the narrator for actually taking the time to name all 15 Soviet Republics.

[@venomousgrace8722]

Not you

[@bobafett_8922]

He mispronounced a few states

[@camdenmiller7369]

@@bobafett_8922 Im surprised on his reading of the full KGB name

[@emiliospowerballer1441]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo I read it.

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@camdenmiller7369 He did quite well considering that he's unlikely to be a Russian speaker.

[@justbattlefield8794]

A CIA spy, an MI6 spy and a KGB spy were bragging about how secret their work is, the CIA spy says "my work is so secret only me, my boss and my co-worker know what I'm doing, after that, the MI6 spy says "My work is so secret, only me and my boss know what I'm doing", after that the KGB spy says "My work is so secret, I don't even know what I'm doing!"

[@AudieHolland]

In reality, the CIA didn't know what they were doing. MI6 was infiltrated by the KGB so partially working for them. And the KGB knew everything.

[@semdavidanger]

Oh,. My,.

[@nickglennlewis5676]

Here: new job assignment. ... ... ... Shoot the entity that reads this Less it be the assigner or me: supereme leader. PS. That means you to

[@PassivesAbseits]

In comes the Danish spy, claiming: Nobody even knows, I exist...

[@nlrenzo9432]

Lol

[@kev3d]

In the late 80's as the cold war was winding down, a western Economist was sent to the Soviet Union to report on the situation of the market. Gorbachev allowed this, but only with an English-speaking KGB agent to escort the economist around. The first stop was a shoe store where the shelves were bare. the economist spoke allowed as he wrote, which was his habit "Shoe shortage." The agent is annoyed and raises an eyebrow, but says nothing. The next stop is a bakery and once again, most of the shelves have nothing but a dusting of flour and stale crumbs. "Bread shortage" the economist says as he writes. Once again the agent is quite irritated but merely huffs a bit. Then the pair visit a butcher and behind the glass there is little more than a few pitiful looking cuts of mostly sinew and bone. "Meat shortage" the economist says. Finally the KGB agent has had enough. He bellows strongly: "Leeson here Amerikanski! In the old days, ve vould have shot you for you eensolence! " The economist opens his note pad: "Bullet shortage."

[@jackryan4313]

I'm laughing out loud😂not what I expected 😂😂😂😂

[@alynahrose6725]

Good joke

[@cubsgameing1235]

Lol

[@oscarosullivan4513]

My dad visited the Soviet Union in the 1980’s as part of a school trips and remembers the party having “minders”

[@truechina6904]

LOLLL

[@Griggs133]

I had a Russian math professor who grew up in a small hunting village near the USSR/Mongolian border. When she was a girl, she would hunt but was only allowed to go a few miles out in the forest but never past the lake. Her father and all the other adults in the village had stories about there was a ghost who haunted the lake, and if the ghost caught you that you would never be seen again. When the USSR fell and she revisited the village she found out there was an outpost used by the KGB to monitor transmissions coming out of China after the SIno-Soviet split.

[@jasonvanwyk209]

OMG

[@egertroos1691]

You from Mongolia?

[@xFlared]

What happened to the ghost?

[@Akshayattr1]

@@xFlared there was no ghost. the KGB probably took over people who accidentally saw their outpost. think of it like people disaapearing in area 51 in U.S.

[@Fesko-ly1wr]

She was probably from Buryat republic?

[@radjadawamindra697]

"The flags may be different, but the methods are all the same." *Viktor Reznov, Vorkuta, USSR, 1963*

[@nolangonzales8534]

that says a lot

[@radjadawamindra697]

@@nolangonzales8534 that says a lot for pretty much every wars on Earth including the current war in Ukraine. I mean who's to say that there aren't any Russian lieutenant captured and brainwashed by Ukrainian intelligence into believing that he's part of Ukrainian volunteer forces to be used against the Russian invading forces consisted of his former superiors and fellow countrymen.

[@jameshailerthepostmaster4389]

MI6, KGB, MSS, CIA, Mossad, and etc. They are all the same.

[@astrosherlock374]

He was talking about the intelligence agencies of the world, not just Russia. R&AW, CIA, SIS, Mossad, KGB, ISI, all of them.

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

“Governments may change, but the lies stay the same.” -James Bond, Goldeneye

[@snickerson69]

Shortly after the end of WWII, my great grandma used to work is a shoe factory near Riga (It was Latvian SSR then). Her work was to glue the pre-made parts together. Decades later someone bought the building and and found a room with a large device used to listen to phone calls that was later confirmed to have been used by the KGB.

[@ilhamseptian1604]

Another story' from your relatives? That was really interisting

[@cinemaparadiso5402]

Back in my day (today) NSA and Is rael spied on you and me ...

[@exdop654]

I'm from Latvia good one bro

[@RisingInTheFlesh]

@@cinemaparadiso5402 Is rael owns US politicians

[@teddyfresh9605]

@@cinemaparadiso5402 Everyone spies on everybody. Your anti semitic hysteria has no place here

[@Haanicz]

Small correction - at 4:07, you say that the Prague Spring began in 1969. It actually started much earlier and ended in August 1968 when the Warsaw pact armies invaded Czechoslovakia, which marked the beginning of the period we now call "normalisation"

[@Schmeldestofall]

And at 4:25 they have the Czechoslovak flat upside down

[@DopravniPoradce]

Good catch, I missed that. I only noticed the flags upside down.

[@metalpreacher02]

the reason Jaromir Jagr wears #68

[@RJ-bj3sm]

Not in 1969 but in 1968

[@Redslayer0908]

My great grandpa, returning from the Polish II corps under British command. Came back to Poland and because he had been in the II corps, he got spied on by the kgb, had to bury anything that showed his past life as a Polish Soldier. He fought in 3 wars and died in 1972. He fought in WW1, Polish-Soviet war and, WW2

[@egertroos1691]

Greetings from Estonia my polish brother.

[@giannb5145]

KGB chief Yuri Andropov was the Soviet Deng Xiaoping, but he died early. And Xi Jinping today, is the Chinese Yuri Andropov

[@711jastin]

the reason they are feared is that you never knew you're on their list, for reasons unknown, it can be as ridiculous as someone turned you in to the authorities because your neighbor's cousin Vadim secretly sold half pack of opened western cigarette to a random person, which the cigarette allegedly came from your rubbish bin as the neighbor claimed.

[@wolfswinkel8906]

who did the KGB put on their list for such a reason? Got any names or is this an urban legend?

[@NoName-wl5uo]

@@wolfswinkel8906 it's probably an expression about how something so farfetched can get you in trouble.

[@wolfswinkel8906]

@@NoName-wl5uo I'm looking for some examples of this high handedness and all I'm seeing is selling state secrets to the CIA and MI6- an offence which these two agencies are famous for punishing. The way OP makes this allegation of impunity without any facts to back them up is how public opinion is shaped and influenced by falsehoods.

[@cheesedmacaroni]

VADIM BLYAT!

[@megancrager4397]

@@wolfswinkel8906 did you read it literally? I didn't.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Citizen: “I feel like I’m being watched…” 🖼 🔈“Nyet, Comrade! Go back to sleep!”

[@davidvasquez08]

👀👀👀👀

[@jmpm-tz1so]

Citizen: *goes back to sleep and forgets his dumb question* 🖼🔈:*happy KGB noices*

[@ДамарцусСемь]

its spelled Net "Нет"

[@vasiliifilippenko1677]

Do you know that the name Marlena in the soviet union was in the honor of Marx and Lenin?

[@jackryan4313]

@@ДамарцусСемь and in English, it's spelled nyet. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@0bserver416]

Fun fact❗ KGB still exists. The security service in Belarus inherited the Soviet name and is still officially KGB. You're welcome.

[@wisp6826]

Russian FSB is pretty much KGB.

[@0bserver416]

@@wisp6826 What I meant is just the name it retained from the Soviet past - KGB.

[@wisp6826]

@@0bserver416 I know. What I am saying is that FSB is pretty much KGB in all but name.

[@zachhoward9099]

Most of Belarus imagery is directly lifted from its time as a Soviet Republic just sans hammer and sickle

[@chairmanxina2338]

@@zachhoward9099 without* hammer and sickle. You are french

[@jamesbanish1723]

History is always interesting to me. Sometimes it can be painful. However, it should never be hidden or censored.

[@johndawson6057]

History, especially in the last 500 years have always, always been painful.

[@UrvineSpiegel]

I really like the simple animations. Just enough to paint the picture without pulling you away from the narration.

[@connorwright7040]

The KGB (short for Killing Gloves of Boxing) is an unlockable melee weapon for the Heavy in Team Fortress 2, taking the appearance of a pair of boxing gloves colored either red or blue according to the team you're on. Upon killing an enemy with the KGB, all your attacks for the next five seconds are guaranteed to be critical hits. This ability is offset by a 20% slower attack speed. An effective strategy with this weapon is to kill an enemy with a melee and then switch to your primary or shotgun to deal massively increased damage for 5 seconds.

[@MajorCrits404]

Ah yes a supreme man of culture

[@Faetter-Blobs-Filmbiks]

Nerd

[@sadmanpranto9026]

Use when Someone touched your gun.

[@overtale4516]

Better paired with the Tomislav for its faster and silent rev time.

[@Fayes_Fav]

Ok nerd

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

"Knock knock." "Who's the-?" *slap* "We will ask the questions!"

[@Leo-qe1my]

Ding Dong

[@bagyinszkinandor7472]

"The KGB will wait for no one"

[@tranthiminhchauam5538]

KGB: *DID I HEAR ANTI-COMMUNISM SENTIMENTS?*

[@Мирич-з4е]

"Ve ask ze kvestions!" - Gruber from "allo allo"

[@izebdeh]

As a Bangladeshi I knew the Soviets aided in the Liberation which was just another proxy war for them. But I had no idea they had their fingers so deep in the Political Leadership. Fascinating stuff.

[@chuckecheesesbrother5382]

Joy Bangla!

[@Om_Namah_Shivayaa]

Proud to lose your Bangla heritage and become Muslim majority?

[@ANA_DAMMI_DRAVIDA]

​@@chuckecheesesbrother5382what are you doing why don't Bangladesh develop like ussr

[@jonathansmith8672]

3:07 Wow!! I love how you depicted Alcatraz and its cells! Speaking of which, you HAVE to do a video on Alcatraz and its escape attempts! 😍😍🤗🤗☺👍👍❤❤

[@Jell0zz]

Interesting, would be nice if you'd do a similar expose on the CIA/NSA/FBI/DHS complex and it's Foreign Coups. Not to mention it's inherent static nature when compared to the 'fluid' nature of public office jobs, although their fluidity in the US can be argued. In the end you have a large security apparatus that's looking to justify it's existence and lacks oversight.

[@lindanib541]

Here's my favourite joke about the KGB; The CIA, FBI, and the KGB are tasked with finding a rabbit in a forest. The CIA show up after a few days and release a 6000 word article on the fact that rabbits don't exist. The FBI show up with a dead rabbit and say in a press release "The rabbit had it coming." The KGB show up with a bruised and beaten bear. The bear is forced to make a statement "I am a rabbit, my father was a rabbit, and my mother is a rabbit. My whole family are rabbits!"

[@PugnaciousProductions]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo okay, I won’t.

[@wibzard]

I feel like the CIA and the FBI should be switched..

[@newtonsbuilds8831]

I love this

[@bigyesman2496]

bear started speaking russian just so he doesnt get killed by the kgb :skull:

[@lisapop5219]

That actually made me chuckle a bit

[@RDSyafriyar]

"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying." - Mikhail Baryshnikov

[@luciferhuey6285]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo the KGB should get you for being a menace

[@miahsafwanabdal4994]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo people have better things to do, don't worry

[@Mallettt123]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo sod off bot

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

There were many careerists in the KGB, since working in the KGB opened up opportunities in many areas, including politics.

[@brothergunns5055]

For a lot of years, KGB also had a lot of influence in Indian politics

[@caelum2185]

USSR also had a lot of role in protecting India from USA and its goons, eg 1972 war.

[@brothergunns5055]

@@caelum2185 TRUE

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

*Looks at all the non sanctioned oil Indian is buying* Some could say they still do.

[@brothergunns5055]

@@attemptedunkindness3632 India is one of the few countries that didn't vote against Russia. And moreover the influence of KGB ended after the emergence of RAW.

[@Maviolo.]

Nobody cares

[@bensmith3242]

00:14 when you’re writing an essay and need to get the word count up

[@tamtenztyu1761]

1:09 Saul Goodman nooo 😭😭

[@Creppystories123]

"better call Saul theme starts playing"

[@NW_AB12]

LOL

[@Wackymushrooms]

*I remember hearing about a Soviet horror story about a black Volga car that was supposed to be the devil's car and kidnapped people and when they were found they were missing blood, turns out that it was just the KGB.*

[@silverhawkscape2677]

They aren't too different from each other really.

[@artemshevtsov6062]

that’s messed up

[@littlekong7685]

I worked with a woman, when she was a little girl she said shadows would come in the night and open apartment doors with keys and take someone, they were the KGB with forged key copies. In under a year they had taken every man in the entire apartment block, one night at a time, including her father. Only 1 ever returned, and he never spoke again in his life and could not work because of all his broken and poorly healed bones. All the men were engineers or bankers, and no one knows why the KGB were taking them or what they did with them (and the few women and children who resisted and got taken as well).

[@CapybaraConnoisseur89]

I can confirm, in Poland when I was young they scared us with Black Volga. And it was in 90's after the collapse of Soviet Union.

[@Americansikkunt]

@@littlekong7685 What could possibly warrant kidnapping men on that scale….? …Did they know something? Like, something beyond regular KGB secrets???

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

The KGB did a lot of stuff off the books, They were basically free to do whatever the CPSU wanted

[@VERRATENMEMESANDCOD]

So there's a story: Three agencies went to find the white rabbit in a forest. The first one was the FBI who investigated for months and finally reported that the rabbit had escaped. The second one was the ( GIGN or CIA I guess ) who went in came out and burned down the entire forest to kill the rabbit. The third one was the KGB who went in and came out 2 hours later: with them was a bear who admitted that he was the rabbit.

[@roastingminer6919]

💀💀💀

[@becon8575]

💀💀💀

[@Dan86130]

💀💀💀

[@savagenoob1016]

💀💀💀

[@christinanull5098]

💀💀💀

[@technoimperialist9509]

I finally a simple history video without clickbait thumbnail

[@prakashghumaliya2002]

Thank you for video sir

[@Gugner]

Fact: The KGB did not die, it just changed its name from KGB to FSB, using same brutal methods. So, KGB does STILL exist.

[@g3tshotheett]

….

[@shayaldwarka7907]

But the FSB only operates within Russia.

[@theotherfoot129]

@@shayaldwarka7907 ....that you know of. The CIA isn't allowed to operate on US soil either yet they have done so many times

[@natebox4550]

@@shayaldwarka7907 supposedly, albeit yeah their mainly in Russia.

[@queue2]

Man, when i read the last sentence i got shivers down my spine

[@CartoonHistory]

One of the most terrifying scenes in "The Death of Stalin" was Beria walking through the interrogation rooms whilst people are screaming "long live Stalin" just before being shot. Really chilling.

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

This is the NKVD, not the KGB

[@ryangearpermer241]

@@Anonymous-qj3sf Different name, same method.

[@stupidumbasshithead5715]

Beria was a monster

[@lilldavid6903]

@@ryangearpermer241 No, the NKVD was worse

[@Setanta93]

@@Anonymous-qj3sf Ostensibly the same thing.

[@MadLad_Poli33]

KGB is basicly [CLASSIFIED]

[@Briselance]

*basically, this is true.

[@FIVEBASKET]

The foudetain

[@ClassifiedHorse]

Thank you… I guess?

[@majster5675]

Perhaps the most terryfing thing is the fact that most KGB activities, assets and agents remain unknown, and after USSR colapse they haven't vanished in thin air. Modern GRU still has access to most of them and I'm positive Russians know exactly how to make a use of them.

[@charlessaint7926]

Simple History, "Why was the the KGB so feared?" KGB bursts in, "WE WILL ASK THE QUESTIONS!"

[@marcuslaffey1637]

As terrifying as the KGB was, they were much softer than their predecessor, the NKVD

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

KGB is much worse. they destroy the West from the inside. thanks to them, generations of the West, prior to the fall of the KGB, were influenced and indoctrinated by communist/socialist/Marxist ideologies without knowing. these same people would be indoctrinating the next generations despite the fact the KGB doesn't exist anymore

[@idek6585]

At least, that's what we know of anyway...

[@brodyguthrie9713]

The thousands of Polish Officers massacred at Katyn Wood would likely agree with you about the NKVD

[@orestmarkheva7325]

​@YourNotSoProudFather sure them and before that russian army officers and people. Everybody always had it coming with them

[@ghiaccioiced]

@YourNotSoProudFather Okay, so by that logic the Untermenschen that the N@z1s mentioned had it coming, huh?

[@xeanderman6688]

I love how the title is "Why they are feared" instead of "why they were feared". Because you know FSB is KGB under a different name

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

The KGB was much stronger than the modern FSB

[@garyward1534]

NKVD, then KGB, now FSB

[@yeahand-yr7lh]

​@@garyward1534 Cheka, NKVD, KGB, FSB

[@ViciousSorina]

​@@Anonymous-qj3sf True

[@honsuaman8743]

They are very different. FSB is inner force, KGB was doing both inside and foreign. Also FSB is a lot smaller, but better trained and more concentrated on protecting a single man. However KGB had a lot more freedom of action and less control from the government, I believe

[@compatriot852]

The KGB were often feared due to how ruthless and inhumane they were. Nobody was safe from their rule of terror be it that they or a family member would soon become targeted to execution or severe torture just for showing even the slightest amounts of anti Soviet sentiment In Lithuania, there are some monuments dedicated to the victims of them

[@DonDon45-i5h]

I love the KGB

[@fishingmasterstudios9481]

I hope the victims can find peace

[@DonDon45-i5h]

@@fishingmasterstudios9481 in h3ll lol

[@neutral1707]

Just like CIA

[@bandvitromania9642]

True almost everyone talks about them

[@Yohan6665]

Thank you for bringing my country there. I didn't know in our country one party system was influenced by kgb. Thanks!

[@Elsa-zk8kg]

The accent 1:15 💀

[@sriramradhakrishna878]

This was probably the most interesting simple history video I've watched till date. Gonna take some time off KZbin now just to read up about each of these incidents in greater detail.

[@SolidGoldGuy]

Its so sad that you killed yourself with 3 gunshots to the back of your head while tied up 3 days from now. RIP

[@SoSarchastic]

There’s a far longer lineage that entities like the KGB and OGPU come from. Some of the methods used by the KGB against protest groups were also conducted by the Tsar’s secret agents: the Okhrana in the 1880/90s

[@harrietharlow9929]

And before the Okrana there were the Oprichniki which could also be considered Ivan the Terrible's heavy handed and less-than-secret police. As for more modern Russia/USSR/Russia I see the security organs of each merely a continuation of the previous regime under a new name/initials.

[@Вспашка921]

@@harrietharlow9929 лучше так, чем диктатура "ЛГБТ идеологии и сумасшедшей толерантности", - белых европейских женщин насилуют, а вам запрещают их защищать🤣🤣 Тряпки. Вы не достойны своей культуры, ваши предки жалеют что вы существуете...

[@karlakirkpatrick2214]

People forget that he was former military and he wanted into politics so he joined KGB and yes that was him in the photo with Reagan back in the day, when he had hair.

[@Thomas-rl9xd]

Please do a video on the battle of Delville wood. As a South African it would be truly amazing to see our troops remembered on this channel. Thank you..

[@arkaprabha8218]

Really good explanation. Looking forward for more such useful and interesting video. Please carry on sir

[@v8y2m]

Why is everyone scared of heavy players using the Killing Gloves Boxing in tf2?

[@BytzDrawz]

For those who don't get it: tf2 has a weapon called the KGB (Killer Gloves of Boxing) Hehe

[@yourfriendlymedic357]

“The KGB is just the meaner cousin of the CIA” -someone probably

[@Artak091]

I believe you got that backwards

[@stomper2888]

@@Artak091 right

[@PugnaciousProductions]

@@Artak091 trust me, the KGB was much, much worse, the CIA is a joke compared

[@Tespri]

Understatement

[@frosteze837]

I nvr thought of that

[@elijahthegamer..]

I missed the old animation style but I like this one better

[@garrisonnichols807]

1:03 Communist version of "Hi I'm here to talk about your car's extended warranty"

[@petrigrobler5901]

I love these documentaries!

[@theburden9920]

You can still feel the effects of KGB after 30 years

[@SilverSpectre90]

Ask Mason, Woods, Adler and Hudson They will Tell you all you need to know about them

[@LuisFelipe-cz7uw]

Kkkkkkkkkkkk

[@r3dsnow757]

The numbers? What do they mean?

[@plant_leaf]

Dragovich..Krevchenko..Steiner... ALL MUST DIE

[@KillbillyA]

Very nice. Sad the last part is missing. KGB schooled various specialists in all soviet block countries, russians always have plans for decades ahead. So it happened, that iw in my country, czech republic, we have currently president and central bank governor from the "prognostic office", which was a "economical institute" formed directly by KGB in the 1980s, when they already knew, the CCCP will fall one day. The point was, it was not really the end, just transformation, and people schooled in this institute overtook power in the newly formed free republics. As to this day, we had 2 presidents and about a dozen of various high ranking officials schooled in this very institute. All these years they seemed to be pro-western modern economists to the general public, but they were in fact sleeping agents with simple task of returning all the republics slowly under russian influence again- Luckily they were only partly succesful, but the cold war never ended for russians and the espionage is still strong and will always be.

[@СырАрбузов]

Россия стала колонией США

[@Zapper-kq1zg]

@@СырАрбузовона НЕ колония США, а полуколония транснациональных компаний

[@anthonypiranio7409]

Good plans till the 90s hit.

[@Porch.monkey.slayer]

I have been to Lithuania several times for surgery and its such a clean, efficient and relatively crime free place but certain buildings or areas ( I was in Kaunas ) still had the old Soviet Union look and eerie feel.. a nurse told me stuff how it was under USSR rule, I am not up on this at all but grew up in England and still found it hard to believe this stuff went on. When I saw the really old people there who had suffered and those buildings it spent a shiver down my spine. lithuania is now beautiful and so clean and refreshing.

[@PresUlyssesSGrant]

1:09 Noooo they killed Saul Goodman!

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

4:00 Again, the same inaccuracy I see everywhere! Matyas Rakosi had been removed from office months before the 1956 uprising. He was replaced by Ernő Gerő as Premier of the Hungarian Workers' Party and de facto dictator. 4:20 The Red Army had been renamed to Soviet Army in 1946. 5:42 Khrushchev had no hair at all. He was completely bald.

[@panzerivausfg4062]

Try to search some photos of Khrushchev smartass. He isn't bald Also the narrator clearly said "former head of state"...when talking about Rakosi. Idiot...

[@WM-gf8zm]

also ussr didnt collapse, it was illegally dissolved, and yeltsin couped ussr

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

@@WM-gf8zm A matter of opinions. The USSR was in an untenable situation and couldn't survive. That's a collapse in my book.

[@ZioStalin]

@@nematolvajkergetok5104 There was a referendum and the people said they wanted it to NOT be dissolved. Eltsin, the drunk pig, did the opposite.

[@WM-gf8zm]

@@nematolvajkergetok5104 it was still illegally dissolved whether you like it or not. its a fact, not how someone looks at it. Yeltsin dissolved it without it going through people or state.

[@throwed210SATX]

Wasn't the predecessor of KGB called the NKVD and not KVD? And also Jack Barsky is also one of the most famous ex-KGB agents alive today. Barsky was actually in espionage living illegally in NY, where Putin was a low level bureaucrat stationed in Dresden Germany

[@DopravniPoradce]

Had the same question and he's right NKVD briefly became MVD which became KGB.

[@ДокторЯдо]

Not MVD, but MGB. MGB was split into KGB and MVD.

[@andershargrave7246]

KGB's predecessor was MGB, which is one of NKVDs parts. NKVD is - People Comissariat of Internal Affairs, while MGB - is Ministry of State Security. And KGB is Comittee of State Security. Their oldest predecessor is ChK, which stands for Emergency Comittee

[@manuelfriend4060]

Except the kgb/ Russian secret police still exists, just under a different persona. Agencies like this don't just go away.

[@justinwilliam6534]

This sort of system is still around today even though the KGB is gone it’s no wonder why many comic book writers and movie makers often portrayed villains out of Russians back in the 50’s and 60’s like Emil Blonsky in Marvel Boris and Natasha in Rocky and Bullwinkle and KGBeast in Batman for example.

[@KingSlayer-hf3mu]

Little correction, Prague Spring happened in 1968, not 1969 p.s. keep up the good work, love your videos!

[@giano427]

And then the FSB came to be and it was back to business as usual.

[@orestmarkheva7325]

well more like they just changed name. And shrunk their appetite, now they just poison people in public and helping people to kill themselves

[@Mayakran]

It’s been the same business since the late 1800’s with the Okhrana and it’s unlikely to ever stop.

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @Simple History! Can't wait for the next video guys! The one thing we must also remember about Vladimir Putin and his ties to the KGB is that he was a 23 year old, Top-Teir Lieutenant in the KGB at the Time of the Soviet Union's Collapse in 1989-1990. He knows more about what's going on in the World than he let's on.

[@Tinil0]

He absolutely was not a top tier lieutenant. That is mythologizing. Putin was a mid-level operative who was a bit below par when it came to actual spy activities but was INCREDIBLY good with people. What makes me most confused about your message though is...what do you mean "than he let's on?" Putin has always been completely open about his KGB past and has used it to get ahead in politics the entire time. It isn't a secret to anybody.

[@joelmalone7922]

Vladimir Putin was 39 years old when he left Germany and returned to the USSR. He will be 70 in a few months.

[@zachhoward9099]

He was born in 1952 so he would’ve been in his late 30s in 1989 and he was a Lt Colonel when the USSR collapsed in 1991

[@Americansikkunt]

Like the coverup of Tartaria…..

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

Then he was the director of the FSB in the 90s in Russia

[@justbattlefield8794]

there a story about Russian citizen was visiting a hotel, soon after he checked in he smokes a little and puts his cigar in a flower pot. Soon after he hears this announcement: Please don't put your cigarettes in the flower pots, your damaging the mics!

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

I don't think anyone in a hotel puts a cigarette in a flower pot... It's not ethical.

[@Dredaslime1]

Thank you for the info... very good👌🏿

[@adamw8469]

I’ve known and done business with former KGB, I actually really liked them. Very smart

[@Delightfully_Witchy]

*He said, sweating nervously.*

[@AndrewPonti]

"The Americans" is a great look into the 80s undercover KGB. Some think it was overrated but I think it was pretty good and an interesting insight into the era.

[@lifeischeesy]

It was pretty dramatic but the premise was amazing. I expected more from the show (more politics, less personal drama) but television needs certain elements to be successful I guess. Still would recommend the show wholeheartedly.

[@lolitavine9616]

I liked the show, but the real KGB officers who were declassified in America and who served as prototypes of the main characters (the Bezrukov family, who pretended to be Americans for more than 20 years and had 2 children who did not know that their parents were Russian spies). So they saw this series and said it was great, but it had nothing to do with reality. They don't run around with guns in the streets and don't torture anyone in the garage. Their job is to integrate into society and make the right connections with the right people to get information. They don't break into anyone's safes - it would be too risky, so you can easily get caught. Their task, on the contrary, is to integrate into society so much and make such strong social ties that no one will ever suspect them. They also told a lot of interesting things about their work in America, about what mistakes they made and wrote a book in Russian, how to make a circle of acquaintances and achieve goals (for example, career advancement and all that), sharing their experience and psychological knowledge. As an introvert, the book turned out to be useful to me, because it's hard for me to make friends.

[@ChongiFishing]

5:08 Imagine if Putin and Zelensky met at the peace talks and started pouring lead onto each other with concealed pistols.

[@marcleslac2413]

But zelensky reveals he had a prop and pulls out 2 ak47s and akimbos them servant of the people style.

[@magicman3163]

Zelensky isn’t part of any military so he’d get smoked by the former KGB agent

[@Romchikthelemon]

So childish.

[@ChongiFishing]

@@Romchikthelemon says the guy watching cartoon history videos

[@anthonyrufino9271]

"Get the charge ready Bell" - Adler

[@timderoche7838]

We've got a job to do

[@rosaria8384]

I hope you also do more videos of these, for the other intelligence agencies through history: CIA, SIS, ISI (Pakistan), Stasi, Mossad, and others.

[@azoljik]

I like how in video title it is said in present but in the video itself in past

[@MrPh30]

They also were much involved in the Bush War in Southern African regions, ( SWA, Angola, Moz, SA, Zim ,Zam ,Tanzania ) with Cuban advisors and secret police and services , not only theirs but also Stasi, North Korean,China and other Warsaw Pacts services also.

[@AdamSisko6]

im very glad you mention 4:23 in czechoslovakia its a famous photo in our country

[@ha-meemfirozezaman1417]

There is a problem with the John Anthony Walker part from 3:41 to 3:52. He was not a dissident, rather he was a US Navy communications specialist who decided to provide classified information to the KGB as he was having financial difficulties. To put it simply, he did it for money.

[@MrPh30]

Wasnt it him that ordered so many cases of film for his Minox camera that they started to have a look at him?

[@Romchikthelemon]

Don't break the 4th wall.

[@ahnafusaid8028]

I am very happy to see my country in simple history video. I would also love to see an entire video on Bangladesh.

[@TonyKnoxville]

how to fill a video: listing up all 15 states in a slow manner right at the beginning.

[@mr.antique5407]

KGB *Slaps Simply History* "WE WILL ASK THE QUESTIONS!"

[@occidentalexplorer1125]

The FSB is the new KGB.

[@ArtjomKoslow]

Nah. The FSB don't even pretend to be not corrupt. They are more Thugs than Intelligence Officers. The FSB lives off the Successes the KGB and other Soviet Intelligence Services made. That's why they are feared. If you've seen the latest Assassinations they executed like the Bicyle-Driveby on that Guy in Berlin... Pretty pathetic. And if you use Poison- Don't use the radioactive Material your Country is the biggest Producer of.

[@magicman3163]

2:00 they existed before the Gestapo they were originally from Lenin then got a name change then became the NKVD and then the KGB

[@jonathancandra8190]

Cheka to be precise

[@navrhy3075]

As a Bangladeshi I appreciate you making this video

[@plasticide4095]

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is hailed a national hero who had liberated the bengals from very very very dark times. Him creating the one party state would benefit all, as the corruption would significantly decrease.

[@sluggishhollow2030]

A one party state goes against the idea og democracy. Although Bangladesh isn't a demo *cough *cough. We have a one party state, don't we?

[@plasticide4095]

@@sluggishhollow2030 Pretty much, but honestly, id rathar be under a One party government who actually helps the people and makes the country great than a democracy with thieves.

[@sluggishhollow2030]

@@plasticide4095 You didn’t even understand me. We have it. H@siN@ inherited what Bangabandhu created. You have it. No one can criticize the her highness. I am not going to dumb it down any more for you. Ever heard of digital security act? I suppose this is what you want

[@plasticide4095]

@@sluggishhollow2030 i am perfectly aware, but, ive lived under her, and others, i prefer her rule.

[@blaze7177]

@@plasticide4095 you sure Mujibur Rehman liberated bengalis ? I mean he was under arrest in Pakistan and the Pakistanis released him after pressure from India

[@Euro2610]

God, your animation work just keeps getting better and better.

[@unknownz1238]

While on the subject of secret police you should talk about the scale of the stasi during the Cold War in East Germany

[@numb3rs448]

Hey simple history, i just wanted to say i enjoyed this episode, and will you be making an episode on the gestappo?

[@RobertStrzalko]

I haven't watched this video yet, but it looks like it would be very interesting.

[@amartyaroy3754]

Can you guys cover Rhodesian Conflicts as well as their special forces like RLI, SAS and Selous Scouts?

[@Abell_lledA]

Narrative of Self is the result of a feedback loop between “Separate Self” & Cosmos~🎈

[@thepurplebandit3859]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo ok 👌

[@houserental5424]

Cosmos needs to give me more truth bombs

[@theofficercat6697]

Good video keep up the good work

[@totally_not_stalin7094]

Thank you for posting!!

[@jibran_r7]

Thank you for spotlighting Bangladesh

[@modernxenophon1582]

A joke that Ronald Reagan liked to quote: A man walks into the KGB office, and reports that his parrot has gone missing. The KGB officer who receives him says, Sure, we can help, but why didn't you go to the police? It's their job. So the man says, I wanted to declare in advance that the parrot's political views are its own, and do not represent my opinions in any way.

[@freedomstar3930]

The KGB is not gone, for the dissolution of the Soviet Union was what They wanted so that They could take over the entire former Soviet Union.

[@natebox4550]

That makes no sense. And even if it was true they utterly failed.

[@nah3914]

Sad no intelligence agency like the cia or kgb should ever be praised

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

@@natebox4550 Only in Ukraine, which has had a pro-Western government since 2014. In other post-Soviet republics, pro-Putin governments, especially in Kazakhstan and Belarus

[@natebox4550]

@@Anonymous-qj3sf but Ukraine was one of if not the most important countries in the Union. It had Kiev, and a big industry.

[@neofulcrum5013]

Oh good I needed this video as a reference for one of the factions in my book

[@indianajones4321]

Hey man I’ve seen you around a lot of Star Wars and history channels, if you haven’t already, you should check out the channels The Great War and World War Two

[@neofulcrum5013]

@@indianajones4321 thanks!

[@fsfsf132]

Don't worry,they are still here doing the exact thing but under a different name, their actions can be seen in different countries, especially in Romania.

[@ВладимирПогодаев-щ7ы]

My father from kgb, l am lived siberia, good organizatoin.

[@ГенриРоуп]

Крайне интересно, я как житель Беларуси, оценил. Сделано круто! ✨✨✨✨

[@nitep1212]

Prague's spring didnt begin at 1969, but in August 1968. Other then that, nice video!

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

Actually August 68 is when it ended, it started in January

[@zonzeven]

@@wallythewondercorncake8657 Indeed! Prague Spring was from 5 jan 1968 until 21 aug 1968.

[@weschalo1641]

can you do more Yugoslavija stuff?

[@Интересный-щ7у]

In 1991 KGB changed it’s name to FSB. So the same KGB people became FSB…

[@tacomeister4130]

Therapist: don't worry, simple history putin isn't real. He can't get you Simple history putin: 1:27

[@mitchellhogg4627]

We will never truly know the answer to the first question. *And that is the answer to the second question*