gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:military_organization
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gptkbp:awarded
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gptkb:Order_of_Lenin
gptkb:Order_of_the_Red_Banner
gptkb:Order_of_the_October_Revolution
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gptkbp:badge
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green border guard cap
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gptkbp:commemoratedBy
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gptkb:Border_Guards_Day_(May_28)
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gptkbp:country
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gptkb:Soviet_Union
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gptkbp:dissolved
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1991
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gptkbp:equipment
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gptkb:AK-47
armored vehicles
patrol boats
guard dogs
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gptkbp:formed
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1957
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gptkbp:headquarters
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gptkb:Moscow
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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KGB Border Troops
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gptkbp:insignia
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green star with border guard tower
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gptkbp:language
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gptkb:Russian
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gptkbp:motto
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On guard of the Soviet borders
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gptkbp:nickname
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gptkb:Green_Caps
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gptkbp:notableCommander
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gptkb:Viktor_Chebrikov
gptkb:Vladimir_Kryuchkov
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gptkbp:notableEvent
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Berlin Wall border security
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone security
Soviet–Afghan War border operations
prevention of defections
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gptkbp:notableMember
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gptkb:Nikolai_Bordyuzha
gptkb:Viktor_Trufanov
gptkb:Vladimir_Pronichev
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gptkbp:notableOperation
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gptkb:Operation_to_prevent_border_crossings_during_the_Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
gptkb:Operation_to_prevent_border_crossings_during_the_Prague_Spring_of_1968
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gptkbp:operatesIn
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gptkb:Cold_War
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gptkbp:parentOrganization
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gptkb:KGB
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gptkbp:predecessor
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gptkb:NKVD_Border_Troops
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gptkbp:responsibleFor
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anti-smuggling operations
border surveillance
border checkpoints
preventing illegal border crossings
protection of state secrets at borders
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gptkbp:role
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border security
counter-intelligence
protection of state borders
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gptkbp:servedIn
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all Soviet republics
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gptkbp:size
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approximately 230,000 personnel (at peak)
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gptkbp:subordinateUnit
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gptkb:KGB_Main_Directorate
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gptkbp:successor
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gptkb:Border_Service_of_the_Federal_Security_Service_of_the_Russian_Federation
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gptkbp:trainer
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gptkb:Border_Troops_Academy
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gptkbp:type
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militarized border guard
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gptkbp:uniform
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distinct green uniforms
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Soviet_military
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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