HOSAKA SANSHIRO: The restoration of Dzerzhinsky’s name to the FSB Academy is not mere symbolic nostalgia. It signals both ideological continuity and a practical return to Chekist-style totalitarian repression

Let the record show that, at the decisive moment in history during and after the Soviet collapse, USAID opposed funding any reform projects that would help Russians uproot the KGB and its legacy. https://t.co/bgHa6GisSk

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