Info about USSR:

USSR Facts:

Wars & Conflicts Russian Civil War (1918-1922) Russo-Polish War (1919-1920) Sino Soviet Conflict (1929) (USSR vs China) Spanish Civi War (1936-1939) Lake Hassan (1938) (USSR vs Japan) Khalkhin Gol River (1939) (USSR vs Japan) Poland (1939) Finland (1939-1940World War II (1941-1945) Korean War (1950-1953) Hungary (1956) Czechoslovakia (1968) Border conflicts with China (1969) Afganistan (1979-1989)

Leaders of Soviet Union Note: Every one of the following people guilty of mass killing and tourtering

1917 - 1924 Vladimir Lenin 1924 - 1953 Josef Stalin 1953 - 1964 Nikita Khrushchev 1964 - 1982 Leonid Brezhnev 1983 - 1984 Yuri Andropov

1984 - 1985 Konstantin Chernenko

1985 - 1991 Mihail Gorbachev (patnistui)

KGB Leaders

Leaders

1917 - 1926
Felix Dzerzjinksi

1926 - 1934
Vjatjeslav Menzjinskij

1934 - 1936
Genrij Jagoda

1936 - 1938
Nikolaj Jezhov

1938 - 1941
Lavrentij Berija

1941
Vsevolod Merkulov

1941 - 1943
Lavrentij Berija

1943 - 1946
Vsevolod Merkulov

1946 - 1951
Viktor Abakumov

1951
Sergei Ogoltsov

1951 - 1953
Semyon Ignatiev

1953
Lavrentij Berija

1953 - 1954
Sergei Kruglov

1954 - 1958
Ivan Serov

1958 - 1961
Aleksandr Shelepin

1961 - 1967
Vladimir Semichastni

1967 - 1982
Yuri Andropov

1982
Vitalii Fedorchuk

1982 - 1988
Viktor Chebrikov

1988 - 1991
Vladimir Krjutjkov

1991
Leonid Shebarshin

1991
Vadim Bakatim

Forms of KGB

1917 - 1922
Vecheka (aka Cheka) - Vserossiiskaya Chrezvychainaya Komissiya po Borbe s Kontrrevolyutsiei i Sabotazhem
(All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage)

1922 - 1923
GPU - Gosudarstvennoi Politicheskoi Upravlenie
(State Political Directorate)

1923 - 1934
OGPU - Obed'enniy Gosudarstvennoi Politicheskii Upravlennie
(Unified State Poltical Directorate)

1934 - 1946
NKVD - Narodnii Kommissariat Vnutrennykh Del
(People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs)
(An organisation named NKGB existed as an independent organisation Feb - June 1941 and later 1943-1946)

1946 - 1954
MGB - Ministrestvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti
(Ministry of State Security)

1954 - 1991
KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti
(Committee of State Security)

Victims

Period
Terror
Deportation
Camps
Famine (1)
Total

Civil War (1917-1922)
750
?
34
2.500
3.284

NEP (1923-1928)
?
?
232
0
2.200

Collectivization (1929-1935)
1.733
1.400
3.306
5.000
11.440

Great terror (1936-1938)
1.000
65
3.280
0
4.345

World War II (pre-invasion) (1939-1940)
1.932
283
2.889
0
5.104

World War II (1941-1945)
1.257
1.036
10.761
0
13.053

Post-War (1946-1954)
1.376
1.557
12.348
333
15.613

Post-Stalin (1954-1991)
250
8
6.613
0
6.872

Total
8.298
4.349
39.464
7.833
61.911

NOTE: These numbers are in thousands (ex. 61.911 = 61,911,000)