The Ministry of State Security (MGB) ( Russian: Министерство государственной безопасности (Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti)) was the name of the Soviet secret police agency from 1946 to 1953. It was merged with the MVD in 1953 by Lavrenty Beria, but Beria was executed a year later, and a third agency, the KGB (1954- 1991), broke off from the reformed MVD. Lavrenty Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლáƒáƒ•áƒ ენტი ბერიáƒ; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович БериÑ; (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953), was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police apparatus. ...
The East German secret police agency, the Stasi, was also named "Ministry for State Security," and it is likely that it adopted the name of the agency that influenced it.
The Council of Minister of the USSR shall be responsible and accountable to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and, between sessions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
The Procurator-General of the USSR is appointed by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and is responsible and accountable to it and, between sessions of the Supreme Soviet, to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
The State Emblem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a hammer and sickle on a globe depicted in the rays of the sun and framed by ears of wheat, with the inscription "Workers of All Countries, Unite!" in the languages of the Union Republics.
KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti The StateSecurity Committee was the all-union organisation.
The fragmentation of the USSR was chaotic and acrimonious.
The SecurityMinistry was responsible for: counterintelligence, military counterintelligence, economic security, combating smuggling and corruption, combating terrorism, internal security of the ministry, border troops and relevant scientific and technical problems.
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