Soviet security services

GPTKB entity

Statements (55)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:software
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Felix_Dzerzhinsky
gptkb:Cheka
gptkbp:are a tool of state control
dissolved after the fall of the Soviet Union
feared by the populace
integral to Soviet governance
involved in the Gulag system
gptkbp:collaborated_with other communist states
gptkbp:conducted assassinations
purges
surveillance on citizens
gptkbp:created_by gptkb:Bolshevik_government
gptkbp:dissolved gptkb:1991
gptkbp:employs gptkb:government_agency
technicians
analysts
gptkbp:faced criticism for human rights abuses
gptkbp:had gptkb:government_agency
a complex hierarchy
a significant budget
secret prisons
civilian intelligence
a legacy of secrecy
gptkbp:headquartered_in gptkb:Moscow
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Soviet security services
gptkbp:includes gptkb:GRU
gptkb:NKVD
gptkb:archaeological_site
gptkbp:influenced global intelligence practices
gptkbp:influenced_by Marxist-Leninist ideology
gptkbp:is_aimed_at gptkb:political_movement
foreign agents
gptkbp:is_involved_in Cold War espionage
suppression of dissent
disinformation campaigns
international espionage
gptkbp:is_maintained_by internal security
state secrets
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:government_agency
gptkb:political_organization
gptkbp:operates_in in Eastern Europe
from 1917 to 1991
gptkbp:operates_under gptkb:Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:part_of gptkb:Monarch
gptkbp:successor gptkb:FSB
gptkb:SVR
gptkbp:uses gptkb:physicist
torture
gptkbp:utilizes gptkb:political_organization
surveillance techniques
informants
wiretapping
bugging devices