138 - The Brutal KGB and Russia's Long History of Secret Police

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Back to the USSR! Talking about Mother Russia's long history with BRUTAL various secret police agencies terrorizing its own people today on the Suck. Gonna go over the GULAG forced labor camps, gonna talk about the US vs. USSR Cold War spy game, a brief history of spy and secret police agencies in non-Russian parts of the world, and so much more in a Suck that gets about as dark as a show can in various moments. Be glad you don't live in constant fear of the government throwing you in a brutal prison, torturing you, and killing you because they don't like the way you look or think. Hail Nimrod! TedX video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQdFDSjo1b4 Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: May 9-11 Boston, MA Laugh Boston Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! May 19th Spokane, WA Spokane Comedy Club LIVE ANT HILL KIDS TIMESUCK Click HERE for tix! May 30th-June 1st Jacksonville, FL The Comedy Zone CLICK HERE for tix! June 7-8th Omaha, NE The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Help Ruston, Louisiana recover from an F-3 tornado. https://cfnla.org/ruston/ Help Mr. Ramirez recover from losing his family in a flood: https://www.gofundme.com/1ma2zvte9c Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Indochino! Get ANY PREMIUM INDOCHINO suit for just $379 at Indochino.com when entering TIMESUCK at checkout. The Great Courses Plus! Get 40 Days for FREE when you sign up ONLY at thegreatcoursesplus.com/TIMESUCK Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/rEza2jGMhwI Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 4500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	The Komotet Gouzu Dar Nastvenoë Bezapas Nasti aka the KGB of the Soviet Union was established in
0:08.2	March 1954 in Moscow. And those are the toughest words I'm going to say all show long.
0:13.8	The KGB was the world's largest spy in state security machine involved in every aspect of life
0:18.4	for the everyday people of the Soviet Union. More than 500,000 people worked within the KGB at its
0:24.7	peak and there were thousands of agents also working as spies abroad. The main duties of the KGB were
0:30.5	to gather intelligence and other nations, conduct counterintelligence, maintain the secret police,
0:35.8	the KGB military corps and the border guards, suppress internal resistance and conduct electronic
0:42.0	espionage. The KGB also enforced Soviet morals through torture, imprisonment and executions and
0:48.4	promoted Soviet ideology through propaganda and total control over the Soviet media.
0:54.0	The KGB fell apart in the late 80s along with the rest of the Soviet Union officially
0:58.2	dissolved in 1991. But before it crumbled it made life real, real, real rough for a lot of Russians
1:05.6	and a lot of other people and its foreign agents infiltrated the ranks of the world's other national
1:10.0	intelligence agencies including the CIA in the United States. The KGB also inherited the vast
1:16.0	Soviet gulag system of forced labor camps from its Soviet intelligence predecessors. And there were
1:22.0	a lot of predecessors. The KGB is one of the long line of Russian secret police acronyms
1:27.6	that regardless of the actual words always represented the same thing to the average Russian person,
1:32.8	fear and oppression. Russian secret police tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of people
1:37.4	during the long reign of their various organizations. And we're going to look at a lot of those
1:40.9	organizations today. Give a brief overview of other nation secret police programs. Talk about some
1:46.3	cool spy shit and so, so much more in a historical suck not for the squeamish. Look at
1:51.2	into the means and methods secret police agents used to terrorize their targets. Turn this episode
1:56.2	into what may be the darkest suck we've ever done. This is like unit 731 dark. If you have
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