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The KGB has not existed for decades. If you’re going to make inflammatory statements, you should make sure you’re talking about the correct things.
by Adraghast 4y ago
The KGB has not existed for decades. If you’re going to make inflammatory statements, you should make sure you’re talking about the correct things.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoWell this is naive - the KGB lives on with the same agents, same files, same buildings, same crimes - it’s just now called the FSB.
- Adraghast 4y agoPerhaps you thought me under the impression Russia hasn’t had a state security service since the USSR collapsed, but obviously I know that. The point is that one can better cloak the warmed over Cold War paranoia they’re peddling under the guise of knowing what they’re talking about if they avoid warmed over Cold War terminology.
- LarryMullins 4y agoFor my part, I still insist on calling British soldiers "red coats".
- mannerheim 4y agoIs it Cold War paranoia when Russia is currently engaged in the invasion of another country?
- LarryMullins 4y agoIt sure smells like it when you're using terminology outdated by 30 years. Don't use anachronisms if you don't want people to think you're anachronistic. You may as well call Russians "Soviets". Yes, it's many of the same people in the same buildings, doing the same sort of bullshit. But they aren't called Soviets anymore and if you go around calling them Soviets, you'll going to have people think that you're stuck in the 80s.
- mannerheim 4y agoDo you insist people refer to the company who Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of as Meta? And correct people who speak of 'Google stock'?
- LarryMullins 4y agoBroken analogy; "Facebook" still exists and their CEO is still Mark Zuckerberg; the fact that Facebook is now owned by Meta hasn't changed this; the name "Facebook" was not discontinued. "Google stock" is an anarchonism, but at least "Google" still exists. The KGB doesn't exist anymore. They are now the FSB. The "KGB" still exists in the same sense that "The Soviets" still exist, neither call themselves that anymore, nor do they have any subsidiaries called that.
- mannerheim 4y agoBelarusian intelligence is still the KGB
- LarryMullins 4y ago[flagged]
- mannerheim 4y agoJust a correction on the KGB not existing anymore.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoFun fact : during the late 2015 Mariupol elections, almost 50% self-identified as Russian, 80% as Ukrainian, fewer than 20% as European, and more than 50% as... Soviet ! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61480988 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61480988 (Note also that this happened not too long after a pretty bloody phase of the war, though of course less bloody than what we had since last February, especially in Mariupol.)
- mannerheim 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Security_Committee_of_the_Republic_of_Belarus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Security_Committee_of_th...
- Adraghast 4y agohttps://101kgb.iheart.com/ https://101kgb.iheart.com/
- mannerheim 4y agoBelarusian KGB is the same organisation.
- shrewduser 4y agoi mean only technically in name only.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- bioemerl 4y agoThe KGB has not existed for decades, but its spiritual successor, Russia, is almost certainly still performing spy operations and generally you can assume when someone says KGB they mean Russian spies.