Stalin's Secret Police: III

When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, Russians gained unprecedented access to the KGB archives. This documentary series, produced in 1991-92 by Russian filmmakers, contained film and photos that had never been seen by the public before.

WARNING: Some images are disturbing.

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• NKVD
• CHEKA
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[majorRajn]

On 6:33 is it that Mikhail Frinovsky ????

[woodbineRed]

I think you are right. I'm looking at his photo on the page "Mikhail Frinovsky" on Wikipedia, and this shows the same 4 decorations on the left side of his uniform. It certainly looks like Frinovsky.

[Nikolaii257]

Question: Why were the innocent people arrested if the man the secret police came for was not at home?

Answer: Because the Cheka had to meet their quota.

[frantic1971]

Stalin signs 3200 death warrants at one sitting, and then goes to the movies.  Incredible.

[EarthRover]

Comrade Obama is beginning to look a lot like Stalin.

[hilletehnoob]

@Waterflux soviets are still in power in russia in the form KGB,also,soviet regime was never tried,people are thinking it was good again because no one condemned it's crimes,so sad.

[Waterflux]

The Soviet collapse has turned out to be such a boom for historians interested in previously classified Soviet gov't archives. But getting access to them is only half the job. Will the Russians face up to corruption and mass murders committed by the Soviet gov't? This is going to be anything but easy. For one thing, there are still too many Stalin admirers out there and still hangovers of the hollow Soviet superpowerdom.

[Pete1987pl]

@frantic1971 wow...these days america and uk sign country death warrants and then go on vacation...what do u think about that

[Colstonewall]

@pkpapers Amen to that brotha!!! Liberals in this country villianize our free market system, which BTW, made the USA the greatest country on Earth. Look at Michale Moore for God's sake. The man makes millions by using Capitalism, the very thing he demonizes in his 'films'. How can one man be such a HUGE hypocrite!!!?

[franciszek8D]

Stalin taught us one truth. Evil follows if people reject God And His commandments. He himself is a perfect exemple.

[kalinga01]

i hate how people still say "glory to the soviet union" or "long live stalin" simply because they like the ideology of communism. but they don't seem to realize the hypocritical, hellish tortures that stalin and others committed against their own people, despite that they were "for the people." some people never learn from history.

[pkpapers]

We in the USA aere in the early stages of this kind of Communism. Oh, yes, the neo-cons are indeed promoters of everything communist. The neo-cons, just like the progressives, have no interest in free market economics and republican government.

[citizen28100]

@woodbineRed Change the name: Why Americans Should Worship their Constitution

[kingofqwerty]

@280GTXXX Uh, Bush implemented the destruction of the constitution through the patriot act as well as wire-tapping. You're a fool who buy into propaganda.