KGB: Unmasking Cold War Espionage and Intrigue | The Sword and the Shield Ep.2

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At the beginning of the Cold War in 1940, the KGB leaked classified information about an American project to build a superweapon that could disrupt the global military balance.
Despite America's successful detonation of the first atomic bomb, Stalin remained unfazed due to the intelligence provided by KGB spies, enabling the Soviet Union to rapidly develop their own nuclear arsenal by reverse-engineering acquired materials.Post-war, the Soviet Union expedited its nuclear program, eventually revealing their possession of an atomic bomb on August 29, 1949. This revelation left the world astonished, fueling debates on the relative contributions of scientists and spies. It was concluded that a close collaboration between Soviet spies and scientists had been instrumental in achieving this feat, further intensifying the Cold War.
Stalin's primary objective during this era was to instill fear and establish the Soviet Union as a formidable superpower, allowing him to prioritize infrastructure and living standards. The success of Operation Enormous, executed by strategically positioned agents, transformed the Soviet Union into a major global player, solidifying the Cold War's dynamics.
Following Stalin's death in 1953, Lavrentiy Beria, a key figure in the intelligence service's transformation, anticipated assuming leadership. However, Nikita Khrushchev, another influential party official, outmaneuvered him, resulting in the imprisonment and persecution of political opponents. The KGB continued to play a pivotal role in maintaining Khrushchev's authority and suppressing dissent.
In 1954, influenced by the deaths of Stalin and Beria and the promise of reform under Khrushchev, inmates began demanding their fundamental rights. Khrushchev, informed through KGB intelligence channels about America's covert deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe, responded with counter-threats in America's own sphere of influence. During this crisis, the KGB's vital intelligence facilitated understanding and communication between Khrushchev and Kennedy, shaping the course of the Cold War.
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  • @yeahman147
    @yeahman1479 ай бұрын

    That spy joke has the same set up as an englishman Irishman and Scott'sman walk into a bar 😂

  • @christianclarke158
    @christianclarke1582 ай бұрын

    Lmfao that joke was golden!! That crowd definitely didn't appreciate that joke😮! MEANWHILE IN KGB TRAINING... "I TELL YOU JOKE" "IF YOU LAUGH AT THIS JOKE YOU DIE!"

  • @veritas41photo
    @veritas41photo11 ай бұрын

    Pretty good joke at the start... I really laughed out loud.

  • @incumbentvinyl9291

    @incumbentvinyl9291

    11 ай бұрын

    Which part of the ''start'' are you talking about? The security network being stronger than ever?

  • @KomradZX1989
    @KomradZX198911 ай бұрын

    This is an INSANELY GOOD and UNDERRATED documentary about the KGB 🤯 Awesome video, 11/10 ❤

  • @soldaat001
    @soldaat00111 ай бұрын

    C&CF Thank you for the content 👌💯👍💞

  • @Whosetheworst
    @Whosetheworst11 ай бұрын

    Those sneaky Russians!!

  • @awesometuber7225
    @awesometuber722511 ай бұрын

    im looking forward to this next one, 40 years data went.

  • @user-py5kg4yw1r

    @user-py5kg4yw1r

    11 ай бұрын

    Да-Уж. «ЖИТЬ ЗДОРОВО!», как в той передаче о «Здоровье с Малышевой Еленой». 🎉

  • @alexander19681
    @alexander196819 ай бұрын

    This is a very good documentary, thank you Sir! Greetings from the former communist republic of Slovenia.

  • @sjoormen1

    @sjoormen1

    4 ай бұрын

    What do you mean former? We had no lustration.

  • @Griboslaw

    @Griboslaw

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@sjoormen1 so true, we did not have one in Poland as well. Shame.

  • @sjoormen1

    @sjoormen1

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Griboslaw Really? I thought even Walensa got rid of them?

  • @petersanmiguel1164
    @petersanmiguel116411 ай бұрын

    Do a show on Whitaker Chambers.

  • @crappychannel643
    @crappychannel6437 ай бұрын

    Very cool stuff

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos720111 ай бұрын

    "Move the chair!" 😂

  • @angusdog22
    @angusdog2211 ай бұрын

    As an American, I can’t condemn Krushev for deploying weapons to Cuba because we had them in Turkey. It’s funny how history makes it seem like the Soviets and not the Americans were the aggressor. I love my country but understand why the Soviets did what they did

  • @spacenodus7959

    @spacenodus7959

    11 ай бұрын

    Sure.........

  • @incumbentvinyl9291

    @incumbentvinyl9291

    11 ай бұрын

    ''weapons''

  • @incumbentvinyl9291

    @incumbentvinyl9291

    11 ай бұрын

    The Soviet Union was built on aggression, they attacked and annexed several countries. Throughout its entire existence it followed this policy.

  • @christiansimon3749

    @christiansimon3749

    11 ай бұрын

    Okay comrade

  • @petr9568

    @petr9568

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah, talk to us who were unfortunate to be born under the Soviet Union. The reason you think the way you think because you had the freedom and now you’re spoiled and you think that the Soviet Union had the right to exist ,in reality it’s not a nation it was a huge Gulag a prison.

  • @Relaxixix
    @Relaxixix10 ай бұрын

    Thanks to my grandparents for their bravery against the Soviets in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 🙂 🙏 👏

  • @afctaylor12

    @afctaylor12

    6 ай бұрын

    How life in Afghanistan. Here its going great

  • @anthonyallred_unfiltered
    @anthonyallred_unfiltered11 ай бұрын

    Amazing documentary ❤

  • @alfredparco7326

    @alfredparco7326

    11 ай бұрын

    BLINDED by... 😔

  • @tanzir_islam_britto
    @tanzir_islam_britto7 ай бұрын

    How do you get a copyright license to upload it on KZread?

  • @dawnsanmiguel37
    @dawnsanmiguel3711 ай бұрын

    Recommended book on Whittaker Chambers: WHITTAKER CHAMBERS - THE SPIRIT OF A COUNTERREVOLUTUONARY by Richard M. Reinsch

  • @mayank7469
    @mayank746911 ай бұрын

    a video on cia is must after this series

  • @usercoimbar
    @usercoimbar6 ай бұрын

    KGB never served the country, they served themselves

  • @hrvojegrgic5111

    @hrvojegrgic5111

    6 ай бұрын

    True. And eventually they took over the country, destroyed the party and put their main in position of President.

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey98958 ай бұрын

    Thankfully in the 60’s, the US had 2 Presidents who thought calmly and did NOT want ANY nuclear war. In the Cuban Missile Crisis, the head of the Military, War Hawk, Curtis LeMay encouraged Kennedy to Nuke Cuba and maybe the Soviets. Luckily Kennedy wasn’t about to do that. Just a few years later, LeMay told Johnson to Nuke North Vietnam! That time LeMay was dismissed-Thank God! I was 13 and living near a Missile base during the Cuban Crisis. We were sure the Russians were going to bomb the base any day. We were all terrified as no 13 year olds ever should be.

  • @gregpaul882

    @gregpaul882

    7 ай бұрын

    That’s LeMay’s job though. You want generals who will do anything to win wars. It’s the presidents job to moderate that and consider political realities. Don’t confuse soldiers and political activists.

  • @annehersey9895

    @annehersey9895

    7 ай бұрын

    @@gregpaul882 You have a point of course-that’s why the US doesn’t have a lot of Presidents who were career military. But LeMays answer to everything was NUKE EM! That’s what started the firing of Mac Arthur by Truman. Mac wanted to bomb North Korea and maybe China n Truman said NO! THEN Mac started badmouthing Truman publicly so he gave Truman no choice.

  • @morry888
    @morry88811 ай бұрын

    nice data

  • @TS-1267
    @TS-126711 ай бұрын

    ... 🎵🎶"… JUSTA ONE CORNETTO.. GEEVE A EET TOOO MEEE …"🎶🎵…@2:59

  • @olgamarsh169
    @olgamarsh16910 ай бұрын

    Thank you for interviewing Ukrainian dissidents historians and simply victims of gulags. Ussr was a gulagland

  • @realRainz
    @realRainz11 ай бұрын

    Why no mentioning of Penkovsky?

  • @Meton12765

    @Meton12765

    11 ай бұрын

    Because he was a GRU officer and this documentary pertains to the KGB. GRU being independent of the other soviet intelligence beaurocracies. And GRU (1917 - 1992), military intelligence geared towards foreign threats, did not involve itself in internal security of the Soviet bloc.

  • @jonmcgee6987
    @jonmcgee698711 ай бұрын

    Very informative. The KGB did what they thought was right. In regards to Chernobyl it's sad their warnings weren't listened to.

  • @counterr6750

    @counterr6750

    11 ай бұрын

    SS did what they thought was right as well

  • @dro355

    @dro355

    11 ай бұрын

    total BS, the KGB did what served them and them alone. The expansion of their power and mechanisms of fear

  • @jugi97b

    @jugi97b

    11 ай бұрын

    The KGB was a organisation of criminal murders

  • @Stilicho19801

    @Stilicho19801

    11 ай бұрын

    Ultimately the KGB decided to do nothing. It is hard to see this as heroic.

  • @jinnahkhan4841
    @jinnahkhan484111 ай бұрын

    Un problem.

  • @salilsawkar8775
    @salilsawkar877511 ай бұрын

    So in your country the rank of Lt.Col is lowly?

  • @incumbentvinyl9291

    @incumbentvinyl9291

    11 ай бұрын

    That's a good point. It's not exactly a low rank, quite the opposite. It means your experience is vast at the very least.

  • @Meton12765

    @Meton12765

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes, in the red army it is a low rank, comparable to a 2nd lieutenant in western armies. There are a lot of them, and they have less experience and training than western Captains.

  • @incumbentvinyl9291

    @incumbentvinyl9291

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Meton12765 There being a lot of them doesn't automatically make it a ''low rank''. You could claim it's not noteworthy or mid tier, but it's not a ''low rank''.

  • @gregpaul882

    @gregpaul882

    7 ай бұрын

    O-5. Middling rank.

  • @medusagorgo5146

    @medusagorgo5146

    5 ай бұрын

    Lt Colonel’s are a dime a dozen.

  • @richierugs6544
    @richierugs654411 ай бұрын

    the kids are innocent and wonderful

  • @dkoz8321

    @dkoz8321

    11 ай бұрын

    Russian nits!

  • @josesantana7407
    @josesantana74075 ай бұрын

    See how Karma works Barria Lichenco Stalin"s right hand man died. He got outmanoeuvred and got executed.

  • @WonderDerek
    @WonderDerek5 ай бұрын

    Having so many ads is why adblockers are a thing.

  • @Sp1n3c
    @Sp1n3c11 ай бұрын

    Take British made docos about Russia with a grain of salt

  • @stickiedmin6508

    @stickiedmin6508

    5 ай бұрын

    What part did you think was inaccurate? Be as detailed as you like . . .

  • @ioanbota9397
    @ioanbota939711 ай бұрын

    They are powerful realy I like it

  • @tedzehnder961

    @tedzehnder961

    5 ай бұрын

    You being uneducated, I can really see why you do.

  • @Sebastian-kb1vm
    @Sebastian-kb1vm11 ай бұрын

    I support any country around in protecting itself from outside influences in its governance any citizen who sells his country should be dealt with harshly

  • @Meton12765

    @Meton12765

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah, functional nation states though, have systems to defer enemies both foreign _and_ _domestic_

  • @tedzehnder961

    @tedzehnder961

    5 ай бұрын

    You must be one of those Stalin fans then.Well, good for you.Russia and China are always trying to meddle with the USA and it`s politics so you must think that we should be "protecting" ourselves from outside influence?I doubt it.Ideas from other civilized people from all over the world that help mankind should be listened to at least.

  • @consortiumexpert
    @consortiumexpert5 ай бұрын

    Humans are essential.

  • @RomanGolubev_A
    @RomanGolubev_A10 ай бұрын

    Rather a hotchpotch doco but passable for audiences unfamiliar with the topic.

  • @BrooklynUSA
    @BrooklynUSA16 күн бұрын

    4:50 brah look at the face

  • @future_me_6067
    @future_me_606710 ай бұрын

    Lets hear more about the wealthy kids with bad teeth giving up secrets about an allied country's technology. Failed activists.

  • @madaro504
    @madaro50411 ай бұрын

    Backwards animal like people.

  • @kxkxkxkx

    @kxkxkxkx

    11 ай бұрын

    News flash: all people are animals ☝️

  • @jonathanperez2786
    @jonathanperez278610 ай бұрын

    Stronger then ever 😂

  • @mwbdcommunity
    @mwbdcommunity10 ай бұрын

    It’s really sad that no Assange or snowden for KGB!!

  • @fabiojr8082

    @fabiojr8082

    10 ай бұрын

    Pretty based.

  • @ristebinov1819
    @ristebinov18198 ай бұрын

    What about the victims of CIA around the world...

  • @sergeypashenko3
    @sergeypashenko310 ай бұрын

    Those 5 did this simply to put a balance of power in the world. Usa already used the atomic bomb on Japan twice… this was done to make sure nobody can use the atomic bomb in the future….

  • @Ed-ty1kr
    @Ed-ty1kr10 ай бұрын

    Only a person that grew up under communist rule, can relate to a suitcase joke.

  • @user-ol1qm9ey7g
    @user-ol1qm9ey7g9 ай бұрын

    ฉันจะยังไม่พูดอะไรทั้งสิ้นจนกว่าฉันจะได้ข้อมูลมากพอ

  • @brianc6379
    @brianc63795 ай бұрын

    The delicious irony of a posh London communist sympathizer finding his new life in a communist country dull and mundane 😂

  • @Griboslaw

    @Griboslaw

    3 ай бұрын

    Yesss, really enjoyed that part!

  • @idontreplytoyourreplydontr42
    @idontreplytoyourreplydontr4211 ай бұрын

    Kgb is to soviet. Cia is to usa. Nothing is different but could be worst the latter.

  • @victorperfecto7472

    @victorperfecto7472

    7 ай бұрын

    Both were brutal at their own right. But CIAs intervention in other countries to depose pro soviet governments and install favorable governments to the USA and curb communism is unacceptable.

  • @tedzehnder961

    @tedzehnder961

    5 ай бұрын

    Yeah, CIA imprisons people for criticizing how their government sucks.Russians hate to be criticized.

  • @alexgunawan98
    @alexgunawan984 ай бұрын

    I could not imagine living in that era.

  • @josephsmith6777
    @josephsmith677711 ай бұрын

    Russia could have kept on growing in power if it didnt invade Europe

  • @theobserver6639
    @theobserver663910 ай бұрын

    This is propa ganda from the usa

  • @augustusomega4708
    @augustusomega470811 ай бұрын

    Imagine if a Russian did a documentary on Scotland yard giving accurate account of their poisonings culture...declaring MI6 as criminal (which they of course are)

  • @tedzehnder961

    @tedzehnder961

    5 ай бұрын

    Man, all the Russia fans and other "socialists" coming out of the closet.It`s funny as hell.

  • @stickiedmin6508

    @stickiedmin6508

    5 ай бұрын

    Evidence? We're not supposed to just take your word for it, are we?

  • @songlyrics9917
    @songlyrics991711 ай бұрын

    soviet union is the worst thing ever in humankind history

  • @nikolosbecker1363

    @nikolosbecker1363

    11 ай бұрын

    North Korea

  • @jnaneshb1552

    @jnaneshb1552

    11 ай бұрын

    Usa

  • @counterr6750

    @counterr6750

    11 ай бұрын

    @@jnaneshb1552gave you the means to write that crap and me the means to read it. Truly reprehensible.

  • @meowy7252

    @meowy7252

    11 ай бұрын

    It's the USA and its western allies

  • @Meton12765

    @Meton12765

    11 ай бұрын

    @@counterr6750 Yes. And your lack of insight into how the US is as corrupt and vile a fascist regime as the USSR, just demonstrates how you don't need totalitarian rule to control masses and lead them to slaughter for the elite.

  • @santhoshkuttan8579
    @santhoshkuttan857911 ай бұрын

    CCCP 💪....

  • @user-pu2hc2tw2i
    @user-pu2hc2tw2i10 ай бұрын

    After Stalins death USSR take the wrong way. With him Soviet Union will still exist.

  • @scottkrater2131

    @scottkrater2131

    8 ай бұрын

    What his genocide against the people wasn't bloody enough for you?

  • @tedzehnder961

    @tedzehnder961

    5 ай бұрын

    You must want to work off all your extra weight in a Gulag education camp.

  • @marlin6023

    @marlin6023

    2 ай бұрын

    After Rasputin's death wrong turn?

  • @bradleypierce1561
    @bradleypierce156111 ай бұрын

    Slava Ukraini!

  • @clairelongshaw4068

    @clairelongshaw4068

    11 ай бұрын

    Heroyam Slava

  • @dominikjarych6065

    @dominikjarych6065

    11 ай бұрын

    Heroyam slava!

  • @genxchas

    @genxchas

    11 ай бұрын

    Ukraine is over in rubbles & it's just the beginning 👿 you can thank the radical left & zelensky Nazis

  • @jjhonecker7644
    @jjhonecker764411 ай бұрын

    ПРАВДА!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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