Moscow rules : secret police, spies, sleepers, assassins
Boyd, Douglas, 1938-2018
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After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin installed secret police services in all the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his NKVD - a predecessor of the KGB - officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS, Albania's Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic spied on and ruthlessly repressed their fellow citizens on the Soviet model. When the resultant hatred exploded in uprisings they were put down by brutality, bloodshed and Soviet tanks. What was at first not so obvious was that these state terror organisations were also designed for military and commercial espionage in the West, to conceal the real case officers in Moscow.
Main title:
Moscow rules : secret police, spies, sleepers, assassins / Douglas Boyd.
Author:
Boyd, Douglas, 1938-, author
Edition:
New edition.
Imprint:
Stroud : The History Press, 2018.
Collation:
336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780750989367 (pbk)
Dewey class:
327.1247
LC class:
UB271
Local class:
327.124
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2337244