301. Col. Vladimir Popov - The Cheka and Successors Fought a Bitter Struggle to Control the Russian State

The history of Russia after 1917 is traditionally written as the rise of
the Communist Party, and its entrenchment in power throughout the 20th
century. But is this missing a key piece of the equation? Yuri
Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov have written a stunning book, that
benefits from the trove of new historical sources available from inside
the Russian secret services. It retells the familiar story from an
entirely new angle – starting with the pivotal role of Felix
Dzerzhinsky, the leader of the Communist Secret Service, the Cheka. It
then traces the intense and bitter struggles of the Cheka to wrest state
control from the Communist party. With the presidency of Vladimir Putin
in 1999, Dzerzhinsky’s ultimate goal finally came to fruition. It
explains why modern Russia, a state without ideology, is the world’s
only mafia-state programmed to forever extort, pillage and loot it’s
people and the world.
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ABOUT:
Colonel Vladimir Popov was a high-ranking officer in the secret Fifth
Directorate of the KGB, where he worked from 1972-1991 and kept copies
of case files in his personal archives. He left the KGB a month after
the August 1991 coup against USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev and emigrated
to Canada.
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LINKS:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Terror-Mafia-State-Intelligence/dp/1783342501/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AZ4FJFR61BZ1&keywords=popov&qid=1699637170&sprefix=popov%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1

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BOOKS:
From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Secret Intelligence
Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to
Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023
by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author)
Publisher: Gibson House
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