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KGB - The Sword and the Shield

One of the strange things about this is that there are no official arrest photos of Beria...

One of the strange things about this is that there are no official arrest photos of Beria in the archives that we've seen

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One of the strange things about this
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is that there are no official arrest photos of Beria
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in the archives that we've seen.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
60
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:24
Uploaded
Jun 20, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
documentary
Production
Concorde-New Horizons

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Movie Summary

Millions suffered at the hands of the KGB. Mass executions, secret wars and coup d'états. But today, the security network is arguably stronger than ever.
S01 • E03 A man many saw as a future president. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:04
A man many saw as a future president.
S01 • E01 He burst into the anteroom, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:09
He burst into the anteroom,
S01 • E03 I think Putin recognized, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:07
I think Putin recognized,
S01 • E02 So, we have that the word of Khrushchev to take for it - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:09
So, we have that the word of Khrushchev to take for it
S01 • E03 There you can shape the new Russia - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:07
There you can shape the new Russia
S01 • E01 To get in, you had to go through the wardrobe - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:06
To get in, you had to go through the wardrobe
S01 • E02 One way or another, Beria was now gone. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:04
One way or another, Beria was now gone.
S01 • E01 (Alexander speaks Russian) - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:13
(Alexander speaks Russian)
S01 • E03 And he basically became Sobchak's fixer. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:04
And he basically became Sobchak's fixer.
S01 • E03 Fixer, bagman, he was the guy who liaised - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:07
Fixer, bagman, he was the guy who liaised
S01 • E02 Khrushchev's next move was to reduce the power - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:08
Khrushchev's next move was to reduce the power
S01 • E03 Putin was typical of a whole generation of KGB officers - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:09
Putin was typical of a whole generation of KGB officers
S01 • E01 Lenin had a rather naive attitude - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:05
Lenin had a rather naive attitude
S01 • E01 He said, "It'd be enough for the new Soviet state - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:15
He said, "It'd be enough for the new Soviet state
S01 • E02 This was Khrushchev attempt to curb this super agency. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:05
This was Khrushchev attempt to curb this super agency.
S01 • E03 And they were then in a position by the late 1990s - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:09
And they were then in a position by the late 1990s
S01 • E02 64,000 workers were sacked from state security. - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:05
64,000 workers were sacked from state security.
S01 • E03 Later in what was now St. Petersburg, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:12
Later in what was now St. Petersburg,
S01 • E01 There are forces at large - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:05
There are forces at large
S01 • E01 You need to not just arrest large numbers of people, - KGB - The Sword and the Shield 00:15
You need to not just arrest large numbers of people,