The U.S.S.R.: Big Brother Is Everywhere

The KGB is watching, watching, watching every minute

Countless espionage thrillers and spy movies have celebrated its exploits to Soviet citizens. Officers of the organization are regularly awarded the country's highest decorations, and their chief, Yuri Andropov, 66, is a member of the ruling Politburo. Andropov himself has said that a typical member of his agency is "a man of pure honesty and enormous personal courage, implacable in the struggle against enemies, stern in the name of duty, humane and prepared to sacrifice himself for the people's cause." The object of this official...

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