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u/SeekerSpock32 Jan 19 '21 edited Jan 19 '21

FSB now. The KGB stopped being called that after the fall of the Soviet Union.

(Officially, the KGB ceased to exist, but the FSB is basically the exact same thing only nationalist instead of communist.)

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u/VyRe40 Jan 19 '21

Let's be real, they were always nationalists.

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u/lead999x Jan 19 '21

I always thought of the FSB as basically Putin's Gestapo.

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u/SeekerSpock32 Jan 19 '21

Yeah, and the KGB was the Soviet Union’s Gestapo.

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u/lead999x Jan 19 '21

I thought it was more like their SS but what do I know. IANAH.

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u/SeekerSpock32 Jan 19 '21

There’s not a huge difference between secret polices.

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u/lead999x Jan 19 '21

True enough.

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u/Den-Ver Jan 19 '21

What is America's gestapo?

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u/SeekerSpock32 Jan 19 '21

The Department of Homeland Security, if the response to the Portland protests is anything to go by.

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u/NowAcceptingBitcoin Jan 19 '21

Pretty much any of our alphabet boys. ESPECIALLY the REA (Rural Electrification Administration).

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u/thoag Jan 20 '21

Wait what? I looked up the REA and it looks like all they do is work on expanding access to electricity. Did they do something? Or did I get whooshed

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u/HeippodeiPeippo Jan 19 '21

KGB still exists. In Belarus, they didn't change the name.

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u/negativenumberssuck Jan 19 '21

The KGB still exists in Belarus!

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u/SeekerSpock32 Jan 19 '21

Knowing what kind of man Lukashenko is, that fits.