What is the KGB and Why is it so Feared?

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With its predecessors including the Tsarist intelligence agencies, the Bolsheivk’s shield and sword and Stalin’s NKVD, the KGB was no ordinary service to the Soviet Union’s Communist Party. Knocking on doors, boots hammering down hallways, the omnipresent organisation did everything in its power to serve and protect the Soviet single party state. With sixteen directorates at its height, and widely known for its surveillance, espionage and interrogations, watch how the agency began, operated, and influenced our world not so long ago.
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White, Stephen, and Ol’Ga Kryshtanovskaya. “Public Attitudes to the KGB: A Research Note.” Europe-Asia Studies 45, no. 1 (1993): 169-75.

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@modelermark172 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MarceMarcus 2 жыл бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Photo ok

@mirceazaharia2094 2 жыл бұрын

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

@OriginalFallofMind 2 жыл бұрын

😄 good one

@zxrcanada 2 жыл бұрын

lolllll

@lindanib541 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@wibzard 2 жыл бұрын

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

@newtonsbuilds8831 2 жыл бұрын

I love this

@bigyesman2496 2 жыл бұрын

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

@lisapop5219 2 жыл бұрын

That actually made me chuckle a bit

@kev3d Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@alynahrose6725 Жыл бұрын

Good joke

@cubsgameing1235 Жыл бұрын

Lol

@oscarosullivan4513 Жыл бұрын

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

@truechina6904 Жыл бұрын

LOLLL

@Griggs133 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

OMG

@egertroos1691 Жыл бұрын

You from Mongolia?

@xFlared Жыл бұрын

What happened to the ghost?

@Akshayattr1 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

She was probably from Buryat republic?

@justbattlefield8794 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Oh,. My,.

@nickglennlewis5676 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@nlrenzo9432 2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@princessmarlena1359 2 жыл бұрын

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

@davidvasquez08 2 жыл бұрын

👀👀👀👀

@jmpm-tz1so 2 жыл бұрын

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

@user-qh1ls4to5o 2 жыл бұрын

its spelled Net "Нет"

@vasiliifilippenko1677 Жыл бұрын

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

@jackryan4313 Жыл бұрын

@@user-qh1ls4to5o and in English, it's spelled nyet. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@snickerson69 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Another story' from your relatives? That was really interisting

@cinemaparadiso5402 2 жыл бұрын

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

@exdop654 2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Latvia good one bro

@RisingInTheFlesh 2 жыл бұрын

@@cinemaparadiso5402 Is rael owns US politicians

@teddyfresh9605 Жыл бұрын

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

@izebdeh 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Joy Bangla!

@Om_Namah_Shivayaa 14 күн бұрын

Proud to lose your Bangla heritage and become Muslim majority?

@michaelvillarama7584 2 жыл бұрын

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

@venomousgrace8722 2 жыл бұрын

Not you

@bobafett_8922 2 жыл бұрын

He mispronounced a few states

@camdenmiller7369 2 жыл бұрын

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

@emiliospowerballer1441 2 жыл бұрын

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

@harrietharlow9929 2 жыл бұрын

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

@radjadawamindra697 2 жыл бұрын

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

@nolangonzales8534 2 жыл бұрын

that says a lot

@radjadawamindra697 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@astrosherlock374 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MaxwellAerialPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

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

@CartoonHistory 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

This is the NKVD, not the KGB

@ryangearpermer241 2 жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-qj3sf Different name, same method.

@stupidumbasshithead5715 2 жыл бұрын

Beria was a monster

@lilldavid6903 2 жыл бұрын

@@ryangearpermer241 No, the NKVD was worse

@Setanta93 2 жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-qj3sf Ostensibly the same thing.

@VERRATENMEMESANDCOD 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

@becon8575 2 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

@Dan86130 2 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

@savagenoob1016 2 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

@christinanull5098 2 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

@shinchan-F-urmom 2 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: there is nothing as "ex-KGB"

@Mayakran 2 жыл бұрын

Well now they’re the FSB. The origins of the organization goes all the way back to the Okhrana in the days of Tsar Alexander III, and they will likely remain in power as long as some form of Russia exists.

@Randomguy.01 2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is because they dont have enough money to pay spies and as I say to some stupid people just the winners write history and America now control whit it Puppet states and Spies all the word

@ilhamseptian1604 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mayakran FSB now is wack

@harrietharlow9929 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Once a Chekist, always a Checkist.

@harrietharlow9929 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mayakran I also consider the FSB to be a mere continuation of the KGB which was, at base, a continuation of the Okhrana under new administration.

@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Leo-qe1my 2 жыл бұрын

Ding Dong

@bagyinszkinandor7472 2 жыл бұрын

"The KGB will wait for no one"

@tranthiminhchauam5538 2 жыл бұрын

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

@user-bv8wr3vw4x 2 жыл бұрын

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

@xeanderman6688 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

The KGB was much stronger than the modern FSB

@garyward1534 Ай бұрын

NKVD, then KGB, now FSB

@yeahand-yr7lh 17 күн бұрын

@@garyward1534 Cheka, NKVD, KGB, FSB

@user-zv2mp4zd2i 9 күн бұрын

@@Anonymous-qj3sf True

@Redslayer0908 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Estonia my polish brother.

@711jastin 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@NoName-wl5uo 2 жыл бұрын

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

@wolfswinkel8906 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

VADIM BLYAT!

@megancrager4397 2 жыл бұрын

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

@0bserver416 2 жыл бұрын

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

@wisp6826 2 жыл бұрын

Russian FSB is pretty much KGB.

@0bserver416 2 жыл бұрын

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

@wisp6826 2 жыл бұрын

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

@zachhoward9099 2 жыл бұрын

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

@chairmanxina2338 2 жыл бұрын

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

@SoSarchastic 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-tv9nb9ed6o Жыл бұрын

@@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...

@giannb5145 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Haanicz 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@DopravniPoradce 2 жыл бұрын

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

@metalpreacher02 Жыл бұрын

the reason Jaromir Jagr wears #68

@RJ-bj3sm 3 ай бұрын

Not in 1969 but in 1968

@connorwright7040 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes a supreme man of culture

@Faetter-Blobs-Filmbiks 2 жыл бұрын

Nerd

@sadmanpranto9026 2 жыл бұрын

Use when Someone touched your gun.

@overtale4516 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mcfarsin68 2 жыл бұрын

Ok nerd

@throwed210SATX 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@user-co3uc8vt7e 2 жыл бұрын

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

@andershargrave7246 Жыл бұрын

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

@UrvineSpiegel Жыл бұрын

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

@brothergunns5055 2 жыл бұрын

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

@caelum2185 2 жыл бұрын

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

@brothergunns5055 2 жыл бұрын

@@caelum2185 TRUE

@attemptedunkindness3632 2 жыл бұрын

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

@brothergunns5055 2 жыл бұрын

@@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. 2 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares

@MadLad_Poli33 2 жыл бұрын

KGB is basicly [CLASSIFIED]

@Briselance 2 жыл бұрын

*basically, this is true.

@FIVEBASKET 2 жыл бұрын

The foudetain

@ClassifiedHorse 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you… I guess?

@Shurikova666 Жыл бұрын

The KGB was created because the West was never given rest by Russia's rich resources, and the USSR was a completely independent competitor. The freedom of some chattering dissidents was not at all interested in the West, but was only used in anti-Soviet propaganda.If the USSR still existed, various economic sanctions would have zero effect.

@KillbillyA 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-xm2hg3xy7l Жыл бұрын

Россия стала колонией США

@Zapper-kq1zg Жыл бұрын

@@user-xm2hg3xy7lона НЕ колония США, а полуколония транснациональных компаний

@anthonypiranio7409 8 ай бұрын

Good plans till the 90s hit.

@RDSyafriyar 2 жыл бұрын

"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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@miahsafwanabdal4994 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Mallettt123 2 жыл бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Photo sod off bot

@Anonymous-qj3sf 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Gugner 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

….

@shayaldwarka7907 2 жыл бұрын

But the FSB only operates within Russia.

@theotherfoot129 2 жыл бұрын

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

@natebox4550 2 жыл бұрын

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

@queue2 2 жыл бұрын

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

@manuelfriend4060 2 жыл бұрын

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

@arkaprabha8218 Жыл бұрын

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

@Wackymushrooms 2 жыл бұрын

*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 2 жыл бұрын

They aren't too different from each other really.

@artemshevtsov6062 2 жыл бұрын

that’s messed up

@littlekong7685 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@compatriot852 2 жыл бұрын

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

@user-dc9oq2pr6v 2 жыл бұрын

I love the KGB

@fishingmasterstudios9481 2 жыл бұрын

I hope the victims can find peace

@user-dc9oq2pr6v 2 жыл бұрын

@@fishingmasterstudios9481 in h3ll lol

@neutral1707 2 жыл бұрын

Just like CIA

@bandvitromania9642 2 жыл бұрын

True almost everyone talks about them

@oliversherman2414 2 жыл бұрын

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

@0199kilaM 2 жыл бұрын

Still so glad that simple history exists to tell us cool history facts like he could talk about a rock and make it interesting ♥️

@TihetrisWeathersby 2 жыл бұрын

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

@karlakirkpatrick2214 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Dredaslime1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the info... very good👌🏿

@jamesbanish1723 2 жыл бұрын

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

@johndawson6057 Жыл бұрын

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

@marcuslaffey1637 2 жыл бұрын

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

@hoppinggnomethe4154 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@brodyguthrie9713 2 жыл бұрын

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

@orestmarkheva7325 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ghiaccioiced 2 жыл бұрын

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

@masturbinho6656 2 жыл бұрын

KGB: wow we are so Effective The Stasi: hold my beer

@jonathansmith8672 2 жыл бұрын

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! 😍😍🤗🤗☺👍👍❤❤

@prakashghumaliya2002 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for video sir

@yourfriendlymedic357 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Artak091 2 жыл бұрын

I believe you got that backwards

@stomper5432 2 жыл бұрын

@@Artak091 right

@PugnaciousProductions 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Tespri 2 жыл бұрын

Understatement

@frosteze837 2 жыл бұрын

I nvr thought of that

@sriramradhakrishna878 2 жыл бұрын

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

@SolidGoldGuy 2 жыл бұрын

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

@tamtenztyu1761 2 жыл бұрын

1:09 Saul Goodman nooo 😭😭

@alexusmc2384 2 жыл бұрын

"better call Saul theme starts playing"

@naraedhawigar12 Жыл бұрын

LOL

@AndrewPonti 2 жыл бұрын

"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 11 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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.

@v8y2m 2 жыл бұрын

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

@BytzDrawz 2 жыл бұрын

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

@justbattlefield8794 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Elsa-zk8kg Жыл бұрын

The accent 1:15 💀

@garrisonnichols807 2 жыл бұрын

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

@SilverSpectre90 2 жыл бұрын

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

@LuisFelipe-cz7uw 2 жыл бұрын

Kkkkkkkkkkkk

@r3dsnow757 2 жыл бұрын

The numbers? What do they mean?

@Hamasvard_University 2 жыл бұрын

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

@theburden9920 2 жыл бұрын

You can still feel the effects of KGB after 30 years

@MrPh30 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-ln5lo2li3c 2 жыл бұрын

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

@tylerclayton6081 2 жыл бұрын

Nikita Khrushchev shared this opinion in his memoirs: "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war, One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."

@stormaurora3027 2 жыл бұрын

The United States purposely weakened the ussr using Germany.

@sadsouppp4363 2 жыл бұрын

Where can I read said memoirs

@s0nnyburnett 2 жыл бұрын

lend lease was no joke

@Armin2012 2 жыл бұрын

@@s0nnyburnett we can see what it did with Ukraine. They’re getting bankrolled, to such a point that any equipment losses can be replaced without much concern

@awookiefromendor 2 жыл бұрын

@Pops Mcgee Very doubtful.

@nematolvajkergetok5104 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@nematolvajkergetok5104 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@petrigrobler5901 Жыл бұрын

I love these documentaries!

@AdamSisko6 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ChongiFishing 2 жыл бұрын

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

@marcleslac2413 2 жыл бұрын

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

@magicman3163 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Romchikthelemon 2 жыл бұрын

So childish.

@ChongiFishing 2 жыл бұрын

@@Romchikthelemon says the guy watching cartoon history videos

@giano427 2 жыл бұрын

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

@orestmarkheva7325 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@zdenekhajek4868 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job as always, but in animation of Prague Spring is Czech flag "upside down". The Statue of Saint Wenceslas holds it right, but the crowd doesnt. Anyway nice work!

@charlessaint7926 2 жыл бұрын

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

@elijahthegamer.. 2 жыл бұрын

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

@anthonyrufino9271 2 жыл бұрын

"Get the charge ready Bell" - Adler

@timderoche7838 2 жыл бұрын

We've got a job to do

@Jell0zz 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@technoimperialist9509 Жыл бұрын

I finally a simple history video without clickbait thumbnail

@occidentalexplorer1125 2 жыл бұрын

The FSB is the new KGB.

@ArtjomKoslow 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@KingSlayer-hf3mu 2 жыл бұрын

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

@RobertStrzalko Жыл бұрын

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

@Euro2610 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mr.antique5407 2 жыл бұрын

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

@fsfsf132 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@majster5675 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@pabcu2507 2 жыл бұрын

That’s nothing compared to shrek’s secret onion agency

@PK-Radio 2 жыл бұрын

Mario’s Mega Mushroom Agency

@caim9986 2 жыл бұрын

Scooby-Doo Baloo snacks enterprise

@r3dsnow757 2 жыл бұрын

Bob The Builder Construction Union Corporation

@shrekchrist2857 2 жыл бұрын

Shut up and keep my agency a secret and now I have to strip you of your layers now

@jamesscalzo3033 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@zachhoward9099 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Like the coverup of Tartaria…..

@Anonymous-qj3sf 2 жыл бұрын

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

@unknownz1238 2 жыл бұрын

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

@azoljik 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MohamadHakimiAbdulHalim 2 жыл бұрын

"There's a mole within the KGB" - Secretary Gorbachev

@Anonymous-qj3sf 2 жыл бұрын

Gorbachev was 😂😂😂

@marinlukacek7821 Жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-qj3sf no it was Comrade Belikov

@totally_not_stalin7094 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting!!

@obenreizer7176 Жыл бұрын

Can you do more videos like these that talk about organizations in history?

@tacomeister4130 Жыл бұрын

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

@freedomstar3930 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@nah3914 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Anonymous-qj3sf 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@magicman3163 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Cheka to be precise

@skaimask29 2 жыл бұрын

You guys should do videos about Naval ships/Classes honestly.

@bensmith3242 Жыл бұрын

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

@rahulsubramanian6545 2 жыл бұрын

While it is discussed that KGB was brutal (kidnappings, assassinations), which is true, not many talk about the black zone of CIA. It is heavily implied and alleged by many that CIA too did similar things across the globe.

@scar445 2 жыл бұрын

It's common knowledge. just like the fact that before USA entered Afghanistan, the local security forces had successfully disbanded 95% of the entire country's opium production. 6 months after USA, and subsequently, CIA entered the country, production had been raised 2000%

@rahulsubramanian6545 2 жыл бұрын

@@scar445 It is heavily implied that Dr Homi Jahangir Baba's death via plane crash was engineered by CIA.

@khalidgagnon8753 2 жыл бұрын

Whaaaaaaaaa?

@tomhenry897 2 жыл бұрын

Not as good as the kgb and not as feared

@rahulsubramanian6545 2 жыл бұрын

@@tomhenry897 it is heavily implied that Lal Bahadur Shastri's death was unnatural and fingers were pointed at CIA as well. These are from Cold war days.

@juliusquasar1565 2 жыл бұрын

“FSB: Different name, same unfriendly service!”

@ArtjomKoslow 2 жыл бұрын

And less efficent.

@ha-meemfirozezaman1417 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Romchikthelemon 2 жыл бұрын

Don't break the 4th wall.

@ahnafusaid8028 Жыл бұрын

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

@robm8746 2 жыл бұрын

"Knock knock" "Who's there?" "KGB" "KGB who?" *slap* "VE VILL ASK THE QUESTIONS!"

@evilord3852 2 жыл бұрын

Made me chuckle

@numb3rs448 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Yohan6665 Жыл бұрын

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

@michaelsvec9275 2 жыл бұрын

Great video 👐 But I have one question; why are the Czechoslovak flags flipped at 4:07?

@theofficercat6697 2 жыл бұрын

Good video keep up the good work

@snoopuppers6319 2 жыл бұрын

The Killing Gloves of Boxing (K.G.B.) are an unlockable melee weapon for the Heavy. They are a pair of large, padded, team-colored boxing gloves. The Killing Gloves of Boxing deal the same damage on hit as the default Fists, but have a 20% longer swing time and thus less potential to follow up hits. When the Heavy kills an enemy with the K.G.B., however, he is guaranteed Critical hits for the next 5 seconds and can kill additional enemies with the weapon to refresh the boost's duration. This boost affects other weapons, allowing the Heavy to switch to other weapons such as the Shotgun to deal further damage at the cost of losing boost time through the switch animation. The Killing Gloves of Boxing are automatically given to any player who obtains 22 Heavy achievements.

@Mechabang 2 жыл бұрын

TF2?

@bugbuster8598 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mechabang Ahh, I see you are man of culture as well...

@Mechabang 2 жыл бұрын

"Hehehe, crry some more." Heavy Weapons Guy.

@battlesheep2552 2 жыл бұрын

They also have the Gloves of Running Urgently (GRU)

@timbledon32 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, a man of culture as well...

@jplumbum 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, you should make one of the Easter Rising of 1916.

@modernxenophon1582 2 жыл бұрын

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.