fred:

a lot of what you see on the web is produced by informational department of KGB.
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Symposium: KGB Resurrection
April 30, 2004

.. Russian way of governing the country with the help of his political police, which now reportedly had more officers per capita than the former Soviet Union had had.

According to Yevgenia Albats, a Russian intelligence expert and author of a well-documented book about the KGB:

“the Soviet Union, with a population of 300 million, had approximately 700,000 political police agents; the new ‘democratic’ Russia, with a population of 150 million, has 500,000 Chekists.

Where we once had one Chekist for every 428 Soviet citizens, we now have one for every 297 citizens of Russia.

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