Martin Antonenko
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Short History Of A Long Arm ...
In Russia, on December 20, 1917, the “Council of People's Commissars”, the new Soviet government, established the “Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counterrevolution, Speculation and Sabotage” (“Vserossijskaja Tschreswytschainaja komissija po borbe s kontrrewoljuziej, spekuljaziej i sabotaschem” for short "Tscheka") founded...:
This makes the organization older than the country it is supposed to serve, because the Soviet Union will not be founded until December 30, 1922 ...
The first boss is Feliks Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky. He gives the motto: "A Chekist must have cool blood, a hot heart and clean hands!"
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In 1917 the Tscheka had fewer than 600 employees, six months later there were already 12,000 (in 1921 there will be 280,000).
Well, some “Tschekists” probably didn’t have such clean hands, because the “iron Feliks” died suddenly in 1926 under circumstances that have never been clarified.
In general, it turns out to be dangerous to be the head of the Soviet state security: Dzerzhinsky's successor, Vyacheslav Rudolfowitsch Menschinsky ...:
... is poisoned in 1934.
The bloody authority is already called "Objedinjonnoje gossudarstvennoje polititscheskoje uprawlenije" (= United State Political Administration, OGPU) ...
... has around 16,000 employees and is by far better known by the acronym "GPU".
The next chef is Genrich Grigoryevich Jagoda, who was actually called Yenoch Gerschenowitsch Yehuda ...
... who was arrested in 1936 and shot in 1938 as an "English spy" and alleged murderer of his predecessor.
But then the eerie secret service was already called NKVD - "Narodnyj kommissariat wnutrennich del CCCP" - (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR) ...
... and its number of employees had risen to over 280,000 permanent staff and an army of millions of informers and informers.
Under Yagoda's successor Nikolai Ivanovich Yeshov ...:
... began the bloodiest time of the secret service. After all, Yeshov managed to give his name to an era: to this day, the time of the great purges in Russia at the end of the 1930s is called “Yeshovchina”.
Jeshow - commonly known as "the bloody dwarf" behind his back because of his small height - survived in the executive chair from 1936 until February 4, 1939, when he was shot as well. His alleged crimes: having worked for various foreign secret services since 1930 and having initiated a conspiracy to assassinate Stalin.
He is also accused of being homosexual and of murdering his wife. In truth, she committed suicide.
Incidentally, during the "Yeshovchina" not only the boss himself had to believe in it, but the "Tschekists", as they still called themselves at that time (and were also called that by the harassed people), had a completely new experience for them they too could be "cleaned up" and were mortal: around 25,000 henchmen had to bite the grass themselves!
However, there was also a lot of work: When Jeshow was shot, the secret service had several million employees, during the "Great Patriotic War" - from his relatives alone! - 53 divisions and 28 brigades formed, plus the number of heads of the entire repressive apparatus at home, espionage abroad and the - meanwhile flourishing - "economic enterprise" of the penal and labor camps ("GuLAG").
The number of Tschekists alone, who had to deal directly with the security of the landlord, was more than 16,000 men in 1945 who were commanded by a general!
Yezhov is inherited by Lavrentij Pavlovitsch Berija ...:
The passionate woman and child molester Berija managed to survive his boss Yossif Stalin. After that he already imagines himself to be the successor of the Almighty - but did not expect Nikita Khrushchev, who turned the tables and had Beria arrested and shot - presumably on December 23, 1953 at Moscow.
During Berija's tenure, the organization will have to change its name at the same time. In March 1946 all people's commissariats were renamed ministries, the NKVD became the "Ministry for State Security" (Ministerstwo gossudarstvennoj besopasnosti, MGB) ...
... and from 1954 it operated as "KGB", which means "Komitat Gossudarstvennoj Besopasnosti" ("Committee for State Security") ...:
Beria's successor, Vsevolod Nikolajewitsch Merkulow, had the shortest term of office of all Soviet intelligence bosses, only a few days: on December 23, 1953, a special tribunal of the Supreme Court condemned him to death in an express trial and immediately shot dead - together with his predecessor Beria.
He was followed by Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov ...:
On December 19, 1954, Abakumov was charged with high treason and arrested. According to the judgment of a military tribunal, on December 19, 1954, he will be - well what? - shot.
Here we have them all three on one painting: Beria is on the left, Merkulov in the middle and then Abakumov on the left ...:
Only under Brezhnev does it get quieter and state security bosses are simply dismissed, die peacefully in bed, or, like Juri Wladimirowitsch Andropow (KGB chief from 1967 to 1982) even become heads of state and party leaders ... .:
In contrast to its many bosses, the "Tscheka" itself has a long life!
In 1975 a young man from Leningrad joined the KGB, served in foreign espionage, showed himself to be employed and willing and made it to major there by 1982 ...:
After KGB boss Andropov, this young major will become the second "Chekist" to sit on the highest executive chair in the country ...
Since 1991 the organization is called "Federalnaya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossijskoj Federatsii", (FSB = "Federal Service for Security of the Russian Federation") ...:
The area of foreign "reconnaissance" is now outsourced and is taken care of by the service "FSK - Federal Service for Counter-Enlightenment" ...
This division was introduced by Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin after the attempted coup against Gorbatshow in order to ensure his own political survival - classic divide and rule.
Internally they still call themselves "Tschekists" ...
As a result of the Tscheka and its successor organizations, many millions of people lost their freedom and several millions also their lives.
And unfortunately it seems that the ex-major, who is no longer so young, but miraculously rejuvenated with a number of Botox injections and other discreet interventions, is now gradually reintroducing the old methods. He even coined a special expression for it: "Вертикаль власти" ("Vertical Vlasti" - "Vertical of Power") ...
Whereby it is clear who is at the top ...:
In Russia, on December 20, 1917, the “Council of People's Commissars”, the new Soviet government, established the “Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counterrevolution, Speculation and Sabotage” (“Vserossijskaja Tschreswytschainaja komissija po borbe s kontrrewoljuziej, spekuljaziej i sabotaschem” for short "Tscheka") founded...:
This makes the organization older than the country it is supposed to serve, because the Soviet Union will not be founded until December 30, 1922 ...
The first boss is Feliks Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky. He gives the motto: "A Chekist must have cool blood, a hot heart and clean hands!"
]In 1917 the Tscheka had fewer than 600 employees, six months later there were already 12,000 (in 1921 there will be 280,000).
Well, some “Tschekists” probably didn’t have such clean hands, because the “iron Feliks” died suddenly in 1926 under circumstances that have never been clarified.
In general, it turns out to be dangerous to be the head of the Soviet state security: Dzerzhinsky's successor, Vyacheslav Rudolfowitsch Menschinsky ...:
... is poisoned in 1934.
The bloody authority is already called "Objedinjonnoje gossudarstvennoje polititscheskoje uprawlenije" (= United State Political Administration, OGPU) ...
... has around 16,000 employees and is by far better known by the acronym "GPU".
The next chef is Genrich Grigoryevich Jagoda, who was actually called Yenoch Gerschenowitsch Yehuda ...
... who was arrested in 1936 and shot in 1938 as an "English spy" and alleged murderer of his predecessor.
But then the eerie secret service was already called NKVD - "Narodnyj kommissariat wnutrennich del CCCP" - (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR) ...
... and its number of employees had risen to over 280,000 permanent staff and an army of millions of informers and informers.
Under Yagoda's successor Nikolai Ivanovich Yeshov ...:
... began the bloodiest time of the secret service. After all, Yeshov managed to give his name to an era: to this day, the time of the great purges in Russia at the end of the 1930s is called “Yeshovchina”.
Jeshow - commonly known as "the bloody dwarf" behind his back because of his small height - survived in the executive chair from 1936 until February 4, 1939, when he was shot as well. His alleged crimes: having worked for various foreign secret services since 1930 and having initiated a conspiracy to assassinate Stalin.
He is also accused of being homosexual and of murdering his wife. In truth, she committed suicide.
Incidentally, during the "Yeshovchina" not only the boss himself had to believe in it, but the "Tschekists", as they still called themselves at that time (and were also called that by the harassed people), had a completely new experience for them they too could be "cleaned up" and were mortal: around 25,000 henchmen had to bite the grass themselves!
However, there was also a lot of work: When Jeshow was shot, the secret service had several million employees, during the "Great Patriotic War" - from his relatives alone! - 53 divisions and 28 brigades formed, plus the number of heads of the entire repressive apparatus at home, espionage abroad and the - meanwhile flourishing - "economic enterprise" of the penal and labor camps ("GuLAG").
The number of Tschekists alone, who had to deal directly with the security of the landlord, was more than 16,000 men in 1945 who were commanded by a general!
Yezhov is inherited by Lavrentij Pavlovitsch Berija ...:
The passionate woman and child molester Berija managed to survive his boss Yossif Stalin. After that he already imagines himself to be the successor of the Almighty - but did not expect Nikita Khrushchev, who turned the tables and had Beria arrested and shot - presumably on December 23, 1953 at Moscow.
During Berija's tenure, the organization will have to change its name at the same time. In March 1946 all people's commissariats were renamed ministries, the NKVD became the "Ministry for State Security" (Ministerstwo gossudarstvennoj besopasnosti, MGB) ...
... and from 1954 it operated as "KGB", which means "Komitat Gossudarstvennoj Besopasnosti" ("Committee for State Security") ...:
Beria's successor, Vsevolod Nikolajewitsch Merkulow, had the shortest term of office of all Soviet intelligence bosses, only a few days: on December 23, 1953, a special tribunal of the Supreme Court condemned him to death in an express trial and immediately shot dead - together with his predecessor Beria.
He was followed by Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov ...:
On December 19, 1954, Abakumov was charged with high treason and arrested. According to the judgment of a military tribunal, on December 19, 1954, he will be - well what? - shot.
Here we have them all three on one painting: Beria is on the left, Merkulov in the middle and then Abakumov on the left ...:
Only under Brezhnev does it get quieter and state security bosses are simply dismissed, die peacefully in bed, or, like Juri Wladimirowitsch Andropow (KGB chief from 1967 to 1982) even become heads of state and party leaders ... .:
In contrast to its many bosses, the "Tscheka" itself has a long life!
In 1975 a young man from Leningrad joined the KGB, served in foreign espionage, showed himself to be employed and willing and made it to major there by 1982 ...:
After KGB boss Andropov, this young major will become the second "Chekist" to sit on the highest executive chair in the country ...
Since 1991 the organization is called "Federalnaya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossijskoj Federatsii", (FSB = "Federal Service for Security of the Russian Federation") ...:
The area of foreign "reconnaissance" is now outsourced and is taken care of by the service "FSK - Federal Service for Counter-Enlightenment" ...
This division was introduced by Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin after the attempted coup against Gorbatshow in order to ensure his own political survival - classic divide and rule.
Internally they still call themselves "Tschekists" ...
As a result of the Tscheka and its successor organizations, many millions of people lost their freedom and several millions also their lives.
And unfortunately it seems that the ex-major, who is no longer so young, but miraculously rejuvenated with a number of Botox injections and other discreet interventions, is now gradually reintroducing the old methods. He even coined a special expression for it: "Вертикаль власти" ("Vertical Vlasti" - "Vertical of Power") ...
Whereby it is clear who is at the top ...:
