Russian Secret Police (KGB)
Russian Secret Police (KGB). After the abortive Decembrist coup of 1825, a powerful secret police was organized in Russia at the order of the repressive Nicholas I. This notorious Third Section (thus named because it was the third department of the czar’s chancery), established a rigid and complicated system of censorship and sought to suppress not only subversive activity but even subversive thought. (The culmination of this trend, typical of police states, was symbolized by the name of the Japanese secret police before 1945 – Thought Police.) The use of agent’s provocateurs by the czarist police led to such extremes that secret police, posing as revolutionists, actually helped to assassinate government officials. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the Soviet Government instituted its own secret police.
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