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The Ministry of State Security (MGB) (Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti) was the name of a Soviet secret police agency from 1946 to 1953. It was merged with the MVD in 1953 by Lavrenty Beria, but Beria was arrested and executed the same year, and a third agency, the KGB
KGB

KGB is the Russian language abbreviation of Committee for State Security , which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991....
 (1954- 1991), broke off from the reformed MVD.

The East German secret police agency, the Stasi
Stasi

The Ministry for State Security,...
, was also named "Ministry for State Security," and it is likely that it adopted the name of the agency that influenced it.








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The Ministry of State Security (MGB) (Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti) was the name of a Soviet secret police agency from 1946 to 1953. It was merged with the MVD in 1953 by Lavrenty Beria, but Beria was arrested and executed the same year, and a third agency, the KGB
KGB

KGB is the Russian language abbreviation of Committee for State Security , which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991....
 (1954- 1991), broke off from the reformed MVD.

The East German secret police agency, the Stasi
Stasi

The Ministry for State Security,...
, was also named "Ministry for State Security," and it is likely that it adopted the name of the agency that influenced it.

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