Yuri Felshtinsky - A Regime of Assassins - How the KGB/FSB Came to Dominate Power Vertical in Russia

The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union. It emerged as
a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU,
NKGB, NKVD and MGB, and was nominally attached to the Council of
Ministers. It was the chief government agency of carrying out internal
security, foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, and secret-police
functions. Did it morph into the current FSB, or is that a different
beast? Did any of the culture, traditional and methods of the KGB pass
to its descendant agency and operatives? What can we know for sure of
this brutal and secretive organ of power, and what relation does it have
to Putin and his kleptocratic regime?

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist,
and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in
print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as
co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a
former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive
polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The
Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was
researched before the invasion of Ukraine and is the first comprehensive
investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to
take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022
and mounting atrocities.
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BOOKS:
Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World
War III (2022)
Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Murdered (2019)
The Putin Corporation: The Story of Russia's Secret Takeover (2012)
Lenin And His Comrades: The Bolsheviks Take Over Russia 1917–1924 (2010)
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