
A centenary of security officers is not just a jubilee of some structure that properly serviced and continues to serve the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes of Russia. This is a feast of evil in its purest form. Without impurities, slogans and other unnecessary tinsel. Russia, perhaps, is the first country in which evil triumphed not only over society, but also over ideology, over its creator himself. The victory of the golem.
Yes, the Bolsheviks created the Cheka so that the "falcons" of the crazy Felix would protect their own power. But the “falcons” were so drunk with blood, so swelled from its number that they were not afraid to raise a hand on the party apparatus itself, which disappeared into their turnover into their minced meat grinder. The Chekists destroying the leaders - Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin, Rykov and others - this is not only Stalin’s victory over rivals. This is also the victory of the NKVD over the party.
The apparatchiks did not forget and did not forgive the Chekists of the sticky fear of the 30s. Immediately after the death of the leader, they turned the "organs" from the Lord to the department, from the owners to the service staff, from the executioners to the henchmen. But the Chekists did not forget and did not forgive the apparatchiks of their humiliation, falling from the top of anger to the abyss of party control. The apparatchiks ruled. The Chekists were preparing.
Let the Russian propagandists tell their flock of a fairy tale about the machinations of the CIA. In fact, the Communist Party and the USSR never had a greater enemy than the KGB. And when the regime is weakened, the Chekists finished it coldly. And then they took everything that could still be stealing from a cold corpse - power, money, subjects. So the KGB took the revenge for defeat in 1953. So the Chekist drove into the Kremlin. Not immediately, of course, for several years they were still hiding behind a portrait of aging Yeltsin. So Beria was covered with a portrait of the puffy successor of Malenkov - and would have hidden a long time if he had not lost.
And now we are noting that it was difficult to imagine some 30 years ago. The October Revolution is just a boring date in the historical calendar, an occasion for the series and jokes. The CPSU is an abbreviation from a textbook that not every schoolboy will immediately decipher. And the Cheka lives, runs, holds Russia behind his throat, arranges “hybrid” wars and climbs with unwashed legs into the Western living rooms, which is your Comintern. It turned out that it was not communism with its obsessive chatter, not an empire with its fat complacency, but an ordinary murder, a primitive denunciation, vile provocation, banal lies - all this is the basis of Russian statehood, that determines success and is invincible for the last century.