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by leggomylibro 2245 days ago
KGB doesn't exist anymore - you might mean the FSB or GRU?

Anyways, plenty of countries have security agencies whose main job is to violently protect the local kleptocrats these days. China might be a better example to point to for even worse behavior, with their balkanized net and mass surveillance being used to carry out the mass internment and repression of ethnic minorities in regions like Xinjiang.
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0ld 2245 days ago
> KGB doesn't exist anymore

it actually does [0] - at least in belarus and some of the russian-occupied pseudo-republics

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Security_Committee_of_th...

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mhh__ 2245 days ago
> KGB doesn't exist anymore - you might mean the FSB or GRU?

The Russians have definitely gone back to the old ways, I'm not sure the distinction between the old and new matters much any more (The GRU is the same organization, the FSB still reside in the Lubyanka - "the tallest building in Moscow")

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