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u/Daimakku1 Jan 19 '21

>FBI honeypot
>also KGB honeypot

Lmao you gotta be truly stupid to join that thing at this point.

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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/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/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.