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The museum is located in the former KGB headquarters across from the Lukiškės Square and is informally referred to as the KGB Museum. [ 1 ] The museum is dedicated mostly to collecting and exhibiting documents relating to the 50-year occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union , the anti-Soviet Lithuanian partisans , and the victims of the ...
The Committee for State Security (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, romanized: Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, IPA: [kəmʲɪˈtʲed ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ]), abbreviated as KGB (Russian: КГБ, IPA: [ˌkɛɡɛˈbɛ]; listen to both ⓘ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991.
Soviet officers in the Libavá training centre, Olomouc Region, winter 1985 The Central Group of Forces (Russian: Центральная группа войск) was a formation of the Soviet Armed Forces used to incorporate Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945 to 1955 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's KGB years in East Germany offer a window into his crackdown on protests, war on Ukraine and yearning for empire. ... The complex is now a museum and memorial to ...
The Lubyanka building is home to the Lubyanka prison, the headquarters of the Border Guard Service, a KGB museum, and a subsection of the FSB. [2] Part of the prison was turned into a prison museum, but a special authorization is required for visits. [3] The lower floors are made of granite with emblazoned Soviet crests. [4]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... KGB Museum may refer to one of the following Museum of the KGB, Moscow, Russia; Vilnius KGB Museum, ...
In the history of Czechoslovakia, normalization (Czech: normalizace, Slovak: normalizácia) is a name commonly given to the period 1969–87. It was characterized by initial restoration of the conditions prevailing before the reform period led by Dubček, first of all, the firm rule of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and subsequent ...
Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-06-016605-3. Mitrokhin, Vasili; Christopher Andrew (1999). The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-00310-9.