Word: lubyanka
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...Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (once known as the KGB) is starting its own newsmagazine. The first issue bristles with articles about espionage, the Russian mafia and the infamous Lubyanka prison, which some of the editors probably know firsthand. Called SB, the monthly also includes profiles of KGB spies. With pictures...
...Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (once known as the KGB) is starting its own newsmagazine. The first issue bristles with articles about espionage, the Russian mafia and the infamous Lubyanka prison, which some of the editors probably know firsthand. Called SB, the monthly also includes profiles of KGB spies. With pictures...
...given a comfortable chair and a fresh cup of tea, and wondered if this was how a returning Soviet dissident would feel on revisiting Lubyanka prison. As I talked with Colonel Nel, it seemed to me that the biggest change in Security Police thinking was the death of the old obsession that international communism was all powerful and that opponents of apartheid were putative communists if not actual paid agents of the Kremlin. The young colonel agreed. The whole approach was more sophisticated these days, he said, and the country faced a different set of perceived challenges embodied...
...weeks ago, Kryuchkov turned on the charm as he debated with a delegation of Soviet legislators who want to transform the KGB headquarters in Dzherzhinsky Square into a memorial to the victims of Stalin. Referring to the mustard-yellow structure that houses the infamous Lubyanka prison and basement cells where countless innocent people were interrogated and shot, Kryuchkov declared that the KGB is undertaking its own reforms and that "from within its walls come truth, justice, fairness and honesty." While Kryuchkov may not be persuasive enough to revise history, Soviet citizens are amazed at how far the KGB has come...
...camps out of a bolt nut. Another, barely keeping back tears, asks for advice about how to discover what happened to her father. She had thought he died of pneumonia in a labor camp in the early 1950s, but has recently heard that he was shot in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison...