8/28/2023 0 Comments Linkedin sign in![]() Lubyanka Square, the site of the former KGB headquarters, was soon back in all of its fearsome glory. The Cold War KGB and all of its instruments of repression became hot again in Russia, and Putin aggressively used the FSB to suppress and ostensibly eliminate domestic political opposition. In 2010, then-President Dmitry Medvedev - acting as a puppet fill-in for Putin, who was blocked by the Russian constitution from running for president again - signed a law restoring “draconian new powers” to the FSB. It did so again after it welded itself together again after then-President Boris Yeltsin split its KGB forebear into two bureaus - FSB focusing on domestic matters and SVR abroad.Īs such, let’s just call the FSB what it really is again: the KGB. It did so in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Even then, the FSB is likely to come out of the collapsed tent as the last man standing. The circus top could fall on all or one of those rings, even taking out Putin. Thus, it is important not to conflate the staying power of the FSB with the three-ring circus presently playing out around Putin - Prigozhin in Ring One, malcontented corrupt oligarchs in Ring Two and perhaps the Russian Defense Ministry and the war in Ukraine in Ring Three. Thus, the more things change in modern Russia, the more the FSB stays historically the same, even if Putin eventually gets toppled. ![]() Cut off his head and, as in Greek mythology, two FSB (the successor security agency to the KGB) aspirants will grow back, one of whom will be tapped to replace him. Putin, live or die, is in effect only the latest KGB reincarnation of a Lernaean Hydra. Yet, there is a far deeper truth in play. ![]()
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