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Memorials to victims of the KGB have been set up in several countries that were formerly occupied by the Soviet Union, often in former KGB prisons, to document the repressions of the Soviet secret police and to commemorate its victims. Some are in the form of monuments at the location of KGB prisons or execution sites, others are museums and documentation centres.

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KGB victim memorials

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Memorials to victims of the KGB have been set up in several countries that were formerly occupied by the Soviet Union, often in former KGB prisons, to...

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Levashovo Memorial Cemetery

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there in spring 1989 by a Memorial (society) exploration group led by V.T. Muravsky. The FSB, successor to the NKVD and KGB, finally handed the area over...

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Novocherkassk massacre

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rasstrel) was a massacre which was committed by the Soviet army and KGB against unarmed civilians who were rallying on 2 June 1962 in the Soviet...

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Stasi

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1950 to 1990. The Stasi's function in East Germany resembled that of the KGB in the Soviet Union⁠ ‍—‍it served as a means of maintaining state authority...

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Wall of Grief

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monument in Moscow to the victims of political persecution by Joseph Stalin during the country's Soviet era. The national memorial was unveiled by Russian...

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Vladimir Putin

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longest-serving Russian or Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant...

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Alpha Group

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the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). It was created by the Soviet KGB in 1974. Although little is known about the exact nature of its primary directives...

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The Gulag Archipelago

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the "master copy" hidden from the KGB in Estonia until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. In 1973, the KGB seized one of only three existing...

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Andrei Chikatilo

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1960, assigned first to serve with border guards in Central Asia, then to a KGB communications unit in East Berlin. Here, his work record was unblemished...

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Alexander Litvinenko

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recruited by the MVD's KGB counterintelligence section and in 1988, he was officially transferred to the Third Chief Directorate of the KGB, Military Counter...

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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notes collected from KGB archives were made public in a book published by Yale University Press: Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, written...

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Kommunarka shooting ground

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"firing ranges" throughout the former Soviet Union, the FSB (successor to the KGB and the NKVD) retained control of the territory for many decades thereafter...

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Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions

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on 29 and 30 October in Moscow have been held online. Memorials in Russia dedicated to the victims of the Communist regime (1917–1991) "Restoring the Names"...

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Memorial to the People Killed by Bolsheviks

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omorâți de bolșevici) is a monument in Răzeni, Moldova. The memorial is dedicated to the victims of the Răzeni Massacre. The massacre took place on June 22...

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Adolph Dubs

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Soviets, and the hotel lobby had multiple Soviet officials, including the KGB security chief, the lead Soviet advisor to the Afghan police, and the second...

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January Events

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Viktorovich Shatskikh (b. 1961) – Lieutenant Group 'A' Service Office MTO 7 of the KGB. Mortally wounded by a 5.45mm bullet passing through a slit in his body armour...

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Butovo firing range

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including photos. These same photos from NKVD files would later serve as memorials to victims. Only after the paperwork was complete would they pronounce the death...

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NKVD

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Russian) MVD: 200-year history of the Ministry (in Russian) Memorial: history of the OGPU/NKVD/MGB/KGB Archived 2016-12-10 at the Wayback Machine 55°45′38″N...

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List of James Bond films

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of KGB officer General Georgi Koskov, by wounding a female KGB sniper, Kara Milovy, a cellist. During his debriefing Koskov alleges that the KGB's old...

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Russian Orthodox Church

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Wayback Machine Excerpts from KGB reports on work with the leaders of the Moscow Patriarchate "Russian Patriarch 'was KGB spy". The Guardian. 12 February...

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House of Terror

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fascist and communist regimes in 20th-century Hungary and is also a memorial to the victims of these regimes, including those detained, interrogated, tortured...

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Katyn massacre

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already been secret cemeteries of the victims of the Great Purge of 1937–1938. Later, recreational areas of NKVD/KGB were established there. Detailed information...

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Kolpashevsky Yar

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memorial sign about the intention to erect a monument to the victims was installed at the burial site. A. Spragovsky, senior investigator of the KGB in...

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Solovetsky Stone

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Blog - Russia - KGB - Kremlin". November 21, 2009. Archived from the original on 21 November 2009. Putin visits memorial to victims of Stalinist Great...

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John Demjanjuk

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continuing to allege that the KGB had forged the documents used. In his third declaration Demjanjuk demanded access to a secret KGB file numbered 1627 and declared...

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