KGB archives Archives - Euromaidan Press

What makes Russian spies tick? World's largest declassified KGB archive, in Ukraine, tells all

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History of Ukraine

What makes Russian spies tick? World’s largest declassified KGB archive, in Ukraine, tells all

Russian spies don't innovate - they study and update decades-old KGB manuals, says Andriy Kohut, who oversees the world's largest collection of declassified Soviet intelligence files that Moscow mistakenly abandoned in Ukraine.

byOlha Aivazovska

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History of Ukraine

Which western bands were banned in the USSR?

KISS – neo-fascism, punk, violence Led Zeppelin – punk, violence Madonna – sex What the hell is this?…

byKGB Files

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How the USSR interfered in the 1964 US presidential election: KGB memo

Potential Russian interference in the US presidential election has been a top media topic several times in recent…

byKGB Files

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International

Not everyone in the USSR supported the 1939 invasion of Finland, KGB archives show

“We must bring Finland to its knees.” These words of one of the inhabitants of Soviet Ukraine, along…

byKGB Files

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How to be a Finn if you’re a Soviet spy: KGB’s illustrated tips from the 1970s

First, I want to tell you a joke. Many a true word is spoken in jest. A scout…

byKGB Files

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10 things the KGB didn’t want you to know about Chernobyl

At the end of April, we observed the 35th anniversary of the event that has changed the world,…

byKGB Files

Top of the first page of the recently declassified KGB report dated January 26, 1946 and addressed to the then-head of the Communist Party in Ukraine Nikita Khrushchev titled "SPECIAL MESSAGE about the atrocities committed by servicemen of the 10th motorized-mechanized division commanded by Major-General PAVLOV to civilian inhabitants of the village Velykyi Zhytyn, Oleksandriyskyi, raion, Rivne oblast (Ukraine)."

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KGB archives document Red Army’s atrocities against Ukrainian village in USSR after 1945

Red Army soldiers raising the USSR flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945. Iconic…

byPaul A. Goble