Special Operators: The KGB, Soviet Union
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2023
- Explore the powerful and secretive world of the KGB, the Soviet Union's intelligence agency. Discover their operations, influence, and ultimate decline in this captivating overview of a formidable organization.
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The best line I’ve ever read about the KGB is when they asked a Soviet defector about ex-KGB agents. He replied with “there is no such thing as ex-KGB agents”-
Took me a second to understand this one 😂👍
Putin is a good example of this.
Putin was just an errand boy for the kgb he was far from special
@@andrewbidwell6421he absolutely is!
Same thing is said about US Marines
So a KGB inspector goes to visit a Siberian prison to check on the inmates in their cells.
First, he goes to the first cell and asks the inmate, “Why were you arrested?” The inmate replies, “My watch was always ten minutes late and thus, I was always late for work so they assumed I was always late because I was planning a coup.”
He then proceeds to go to the second cell and asks the inmate the same question. The inmate replies, “My watch was always ten minutes ahead and thus, they assumed I came early because I’m a Western spy.”
After that he goes to the third cell and asks the inmate the same question as the previous two. The inmate replies, “My watch was always correct and thus, I always came to work on time so they assumed that I smuggled the watch from the West.”
That's great I like that! 🇬🇧😊
You just can't win.
Moral of the story, dont rely on watches, they may put you in a Gulag :)
Moral of the story: The last guy is the only one who is guilty
I would love to see a video on the Stasi agency that operated in Germany during the period of the Cold War
I know someone who inflicted some serious damage on a Stasi scumbag within hours of the wall tumbling, quite a lot of getting even with many of those dregs happened all over East Germany at the time but unfortunately Mielke survived the slap he got.
My APUSH teacher in HS was former ODA, and later CIA, told a story about how, while operating east of the wall for the CIA, he broke a Stasi cunts thumb back to his wrist.
The ruthlessness of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti with the efficiency of the Germans.
*edited for a pedantic little bitch.
That's what Putin was doing for the KGB, he was the Stasi puppet master in Berlin.
@@lovelessissimoKBG??...
Ding dong...The KGB will wait for no one! -Jim Halpert
It's true.
My grandfather said they were as easy to spot as a bear on a unicycle.
MOTHER?
It's true.
In 10 years every Simon Whistler video will be just him repeating "We've done a video on that we've done a video on that we've done a video on that"
Reminds me of a line from James Bond: The World Is Not Enough comparing the FSB to the KGB. "Same old friendly service with a new name".
There's a fantastic, albeit somewhat terrifying, book called 'The Sword and the Shield' that goes deep into the KGB and its operations. It was co-written by an actual KGB agent who had access to their files. It's pretty dry, but it's one of the best looks into the KGB's history. Hence the 'terrifying.' They were everywhere back in the day. It's some unsettling shit to read.
It's definitely a must read for those interested in the history of intelligence agencies. Vasili Mitrokhin was the senior archivist in charge of the KGB Archive in Moscow, and oversaw the process of cataloging and transferring the archive When the agency changed headquarters in the 1970s. His personal cypher and archive he used to catalog and document these files, and later pass them on to MI6 upon his defection to the West made it not only the greatest intelligence coup in history, but also gave the World the most comprehensive history of the Soviet intelligence community anyone outside the Directorate has ever assembled.
Good read.
They are still everywhere they just want you to think they are gone 😭😂
@@bigfootcloudsNah, they’re the FSB now. Same organization, different name.
@@MickeyKraut419book wheye??
I'm convinced a guy I served with was caught in a honeypot around 2005. A sailor with a TS clearance randomly meeting a hot Moldavian in Japan that's immediately into him was always suspicious, but nothing could be proved. Fast forward 18 years and he's repeating Kremlin talking points from Russian trenches in Ukraine and is currently on his way to Chechnya, claiming to interview Kadyrov as "the only independent Western journalist" in the region and I cannot convey the proper amount of sarcasm via text when I repeat the claim that he's a "journalist."
Or, get this. He realized the truth, actual truth you're robbed of because you only listen to western conglomerated news sources. They don't tell the truth, they tell you what you want to hear in order to keep funding their murder. Time to grow up.....most "Russian trolls"....are actually veterans TRYING to tell you d/a's the truth. Problem is, you d/a's don't want the truth. You're children who prefer to be lied to. Enjoy the currency collapse...
Yikes! What’s his name?
Not suspicious at all. 😬
@@willdenoble1898 Patrick Lancaster
Are you sure that he doesn't just have critical thinking skills?
I think a video series going into the manuals and tactics that they would use with spies would be a fascinating video series. Perhaps a good topic for your channel into the shadows?
I'm so glad that you're continuing this series and I'd love to see a video about the Jegertroppen, Norway's all female special operations unit, just because it doesn't seem like there's a lot of content out about them compared to, say, the SAS or Navy Seals.
Yes 100% and there only been around for 10 years or so. Would be very interesting.
Wow, never even heard of them! Are they trained like special forces? Or are they "Black Widow" types? I.e. Are they trained to be "honey pot" agents where they attempt to get in sexual relationships with "targets", and either gain information that way, or even assassination since they'd be close to targets through their "relationships"!!🤔
I would love to see that.
@@InterstellarTaco Even if there's not enough stuff on them to make a video specifically on them, surely Simon could have a video just talking about Scandinavian Special Forces in general and mention Jergertroppen when talking about Norway.
I’d never even heard of them. Would definitely like a video on this!
That interview with the KGB agent who talks about the slow infiltration of US schools and decay of American values through generational division is actually pretty scary. Mostly because we can see it happening today. Naturally or not.
That was Yuri Bezmenov. He knew exactly what he was talking about in all the videos and books he's wrote.
Imagine that weakening the US from the inside out. Foreign interference promote lgbTq to children.
Maybe now it's the Chinese who are doing it. Whoever it is they have been pretty successful
No need to invoke the KGB when there is so much home-grown, elite or otherwise non-Soviet degeneracy, demoralization and divide-and-rule being promoted in the West. Blaming the KGB is just a distraction from the real sources of problems.
He is absolutely spot on! He predicts woke culture in the 80s, its a soviet phy op, this is how effective they was, they destroyed a generation of the west!
This is great work, Simon. This series is awesome.
Very well done. Thank you Simon and company.. This is great work, Simon. This series is awesome..
How much suffering & intrigue was the KGB responsible for? A tool of the State that could do ANYTHING in support of The Motherland & its interests - no matter where in the World.
Part of its power was its reputation - which became a weapon in its own right. I drove past KGB HQ in 1987, a relatively benign-looking building, but it sent a chill down my spine just because of that.
Very little in comparison to our CIA....
@@gomahklawm4446you reckon? 🙄
@@gomahklawm4446 Source: Trust me, bro.
An interesting comparison would be the much older group of Oprichniki. They also had quite the reputation.
@gomahklawm4446 The Red Terror, administration of the gulag, the Great Purge, mass executions of national elites during WWII (most notably the Katyn Massacre), deportations of ethnic minorities towards the end of the conflict (ie. Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tartars). And that's just up until the end of Stalin's rule. The CIA doesn't even come close.
I love this channel for what it does and it gives me tears for what it reveals
Thanks for the great videos, I listen on the way to work. Then I listen to your pod cast at work. Thanks bro🎉
I literally just finished watching “The Death of Stalin”, and this popped up while I was watching.
Serendipitous!
Steve Buscemi was amazing as Khrushchev in that film.
In fairness, isn't Steve Buscemi amazing in everything he does? To me he's like Jake Gyllenhaal when, even if he's in a shit movie, he'll give a good performance.
Tried to watch that movie and couldn't make it through 5 minutes of British accents. I can't listen to that many British people at once.
@@fowlerfreak7420 should give it another try, they didn't do Russian accents for any character, they range from various English to American accents, it's meant to show the many regional accents in the Soviet Union at the time, without getting the actors to butcher the real language spoken.
The movie is amazing 😁
@@boydsinclair7606 That still involves listening to British people.
I was hoping you'd continue this series😊
Very well done. Thank you Simon and company.
Can we get a similar video on the CIA and MI6?
Looking forward to this series!!
1:20 - Chapter 1 - History
5:35 - Chapter 2 - Structure & modus operandi
13:55 - Chapter 3 - Recruitment & training
17:00 - Chapter 4 - Famous operations
21:40 - Chapter 5 - Decline & demise
PS: Can wait for the episode on *Wagner* ...
Unfortunately Wagner is finished, it's mercaineries are being incorporated into the Russian military and Prigorzyn has been exiled to Belarus where he will likely be assassinated or rot in prison after his influence from former Wagner Mercenarys is sufficiently wained
@@franzxaverjosephconradgraf6850Well they are actually allowed to go into exile with him
@@franzxaverjosephconradgraf6850assassinated via airplane crash
I'm reminded of a teacher from China as a legal. He was a translator for international deals. Could bring doctors from China to talk to us. Also he taught us about the forbidden kingdoms insane ancient spying techniques. Cool guy.
Great content
Great job on the video
Simon you should do one about MI5 and MI6
This is a great series.
I consider myself an espionage aficionado and take it upon myself to devour any and all literature, movie, tv-shows, etc on the subject, but I had absolutely no idea about the existence of those KGB training manuals, until I watched this video. Thanks, Simon.
Please please please do the GRU, they were something else.
This episode was so good.
Hey Simon you should make a video on the uprising in russia right now
What uprising its over. Wagner is on its way back to its positions in Ukraine.
Supposedly it’s already over
@@jebjebster And it was just getting started, didn't even get to the part where 10000 warlord factions begin to form.
Odds seem to indicate it was a deception to cover up troop movements. I'd take it with a grain of salt.
Simon, well done. Also, if I just let CZcams play, within 3 videos it starts playing videos from you and doesn't stop 😆
I Love your work. Keep up the great productions. #sempervigilis
You should make a video about SMERSH.
Mediocrity and obedience was demanded. You couldn't make your superiors look bad, but you had to get results. Modern events mirror a lot of this Soviet philosophy. Intellectuals and free thinkers were a danger to this system.
fancinating tanget simon !
The timing of this video
*chefs kiss*
& for Kevin or Simon far as subjects for the show once you are into the KGB it is called that you give some study to the even more consistent and powerful GRU.
Soon, Simon will be making a video about the fall of the Russian empire.
only if were lucky
I thought simon had a video like that
The russian empire fell in 1917
He has a video on this topic
Fall of the USA is more likely..
The us is doomed..
13:07 The same purpose and mission sets as some Department of Defense assets, too, like the US Army Special Forces.
I have a book that outlines the KGB modes of operations in various types of missions, sprinkled with stories from defectors. It's interesting to say the least.
What book?
@@unitedairco.5140 KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents
Name of the book
Please make a video on Forsvarets Spesialkommando. One of Norways two SF divisions. The other being Marinejegerkommandoen. Norways answer to the british SBS. Forsvarets Spesialkommando being our answer to the SAS
The MVD reappeared in New Mexico as the Motor Vehicle Division. They are still into torture.
One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic. Does that mean I'm millionth in line!
@@KwadDamyjremark
Now do the Stasi. Even Simon Weisenthal admitted the Stasi was worse than the Gestapo.
In light of the brief insurrection in Russia, a great video would be on the Wagner group. Not just about the Wagner group on Waragrqphics, but a Biographics video on it's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, would also be interesting, too.
He dead.
And such, none of that “happened” 😂😂
Would love more of this miniseries some suggestions 75 ranger regiment, green beret,PJ, marine raiders, Delta Force, CIA special activities division
The irony of scheduling posting this on the day Wagner went rouge to Moscow.....😮
Did you just come up with a new video idea? the contents of the the KGB taraining manuals? :) Id watch it. make it an "epic" episode or cut it into 2 or 3 parts.
Simon, I love your work but as someone who's hard of hearing some of your enunciations are a bit difficult to understand when your tone goes softer and captions aren't helpful (for being autogenerated) could you try to be more cognizant of when you end sentences?
@warographics Yo, you should definitely do a video on the Wagner Mutiny when we know more and see the aftermath 👀
The KGB was simply the re-named Cheka and its successors. Dzierzynski's Cheka was modeled on the Tsarist Okhrana of which many Bolsheviks had been victims, but Dzierzynski and his successors were far more ruthless. There is an old joke amongst Poles that they should not be too upset at Dzierzynski being such a ruthless Bolshevik as he probably killed more Russians than any other Pole in history!
Fake
Can we do MI6 next?
Watching The Americans blew my mind, even though I had thought myself well learned in Soviet tricks. I have been working for more than twenty years with a married couple from a former Soviet "republic". They shit talk about Russia and the Soviet times now, but they had actually come over before the fall of commumism, they pass for locals, they travel a lot, and are very athletic.
It's not a stretch to imagine them as illegals whose loyalty was assured by having their families as hostages. But since their country is now independent there's no leverage. Exposing them would only hurt Russia, and the couple wouldn't face any consequences.
And since they frequently visit USA, I should think they have been debriefed a long time ago.
Just a "fun" idea to toy with. How would one really know if the nice lady next door is a KGB assassin XD
watching that show drove me nuts... all the damage and stuff that was compromised makes me siick to imagine
i can't help but think that this kind of thing (espionage-like tactics of foreign governments) is probably what is going on with America and the way these tactics are advancing in sophistication seems to be particularly effective in dividing the country against itself in this current era more than in any other era.
I know a few very smart people who have said that the country's diversity is becoming our most precarious liability (which, before hearing their detailed reasoning, I always imagined our diversity as a decided strength). They basically say that tensions and emotional responses among different tribes are increasing rather than subsiding. There is substantially more entitlement, more absolute ans self-assured judgment, and less forgiveness now than 20 years ago.
I have no idea personally... I always just think there's no way I can think anything because I'm not in the position to see anything clearly in proper context.
Hey Simon could you do.a video to JTF2
Add it to the special ops playlist now ☺️
Is it just me or does " Scorched Earth Repression of Discontented Peasants." sound like the perfect name for a heavy metal song?
Oh indeed, but which band? Sounds a bit too flowery for Saboton.
Should just be the russian state anthem
I think you should expand the KGB style in human intelligence gathering n tactics
The incident in Beirut, Lebanon in the mid-1980's would have been an interesting inclusion here.
Speaking of the Biographica channel are you still uploading to it and the Geographics channel?
Please Make a video of the CIA🇺🇲 and MI6🇬🇧
We need a BioGraphics on
“Yuri Bezmenov”
No mention of Philby, Burgess, Maclean and Blunt? An oversight?
Just wondering what u think of this as a possible episode. The impact the Internet has had on the circulation of information/conversations might change mainly that can be trusted sources ten thirty years from now
Internet communication is brand new, war/conflict is most likely destined to repeat in some ways throughout history most our evolutionary progress. Not many channels cover those behind the scenes like codebreakers, how German intelligence has helped to skyrocket our technical progression( woke types on the Internet not people who want to learn what actually happened
World's all time precious agency l salute all loyal kgb martyr and leaving agents
Can you do a video about DGSE France?
Good grief that audio is WAY better
MY GOD! Your beard is looking magnificent 🎉
Great video. Only complaint, why is there sad music playing when discussing the downfall of the kgb? Why not something happy
"long live to KGB" Simon Whistler 2023
In a way the same hapened with all intelligence organisations of former comunist states, they changed their name but employed the same people. It's almoust impossible to just get rid of a countries intelligence agency and find imediately competent replacement for all the professionals working there. Also after the colapse of comunism in Europe, the people working in intelligence agencies became some of the wealthyest people. Even after more than 30 years, a lot of politicians are still the ones who had conections to comunist intelligence organisations. Their families also profit from decades of opression and keep an unfair advantage in ex-comunist countries.
Considering its power, the time and place it existed, I don't think it is hyperbole to say the KGB was one of the most influential groups of all time. Certainly up there with the CIA and any branch of any military service.
This is hardly a remarkable or controversial statement lol
Need a follow-up with Spetnaz
Okarna was the sekret pulis of the bizzarist rule before the revolution which formed the soviet Onion.
02:15 - Yes, very simple to understand said order.... 😅
i didnt want to . but i subscribed
edit: oh and your painting is crooked.
How many channels you got man... much be rich!!;
The KGB only protected the USSR by default not out of any sense of duty or loyalty to mother Russia. The KGB were protectors of their CLASS n the Soviet government first n foremost , not the motherland or protectors of Russia as a whole they were the guardians n protectors of their OWN CLASS the ruling class and their OWN SELF INTERESTS, they could give a shiet about the peasants, the workers or as they called it the proletariat.
Given the stuff going on at the moment one of these on the Wagner Group could be interesting.
That was the perfect closing line.
13:13 The Italian terrorist group "Brigate Rosse" was likely funded via Czech StB and mainly by OLP not directly by KGB. However KGB was directly funding PCI, the italian communist party, till the early '90 and also helped in creating a sort of stay behind structure inside the PCI itself.
An interesting and far under-examined one of these would be the state security organs of the Chinese government, and how they changed from pre-war through Mao, and up into today's hybrid-capitalist regime.
State-capitalism.
It’s not hybrid.
It’s used in party sequences only..
His voice reminds me of the dad from Wild Thornberry’s.
an ambassador doesnt quite have the same power as a 4 star general... they may have input at that level but they cant order offensive capabilities.
19:58 Operarion Cedar - hydroelectric dams in Canada and the US
There.
19:46
Operation Cedar was a 10 year operation to lay the groundwork for a severe catastrophic disruption of the US as power infrastructure. This included a specific focus on targeting massive hydroelectric dams, oil refineries and pipelines running from Canada into the US as well as the port of New York which would have been blown up. These attacks were never carried out and this operation was unsuccessful on the soil of the US. Ukraine, and the Kachovka Dam, however, was not so lucky.
21:47
No No No Simon .. Where is The Video on Russian Coup … too soon ok I wait
Wagner Coup On Russia .. Epic Video Coming
Now, do an episode about cia or ned
Make a video on the wagner groups new move vs putin
I would not be surprised to learn my modern history teacher in HS had some connection. He was a self-admitting follower of Castro and his regime. Always professing the benefits of soviet style communism. I figure he was so out in the open that nobody would give him a second look since it was the 70s in California.
I love this video, especially because Russia is in a weird place at this exact moment
At-802U skyward video!
Simon, if you could speak just a little tiny bit slower, it would be so perfect man!
Cant wait for the analysis about the Wagner "rebellion"
how to build a army series
Looking forward to the Warographics on Wanger invading... Russia
Ok😊
10:46 At least something positive came from the Red Scare...lol
Operation pandora... seems like that one still running strong
except that is the pridnestrovian flag not the moldovan flag, PMR, the MSSR flag had a blue stripe.
Since you do kgb, what about the SANDF'S recce's
Give us SAS next?