Meaning

2 senses
  1. (historical)The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).

    KGB

    КГБKGB

    КДБKDB

  2. The security service of Belarus.

    КГБKGB

    КДБKDB

Examples

8 sentences
  1. I think the KGB was implicated.

    ruЯ думаю, здесь было замешано КГБ.

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  2. Vladimir Putin was a KGB spy.

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  3. The KGB had departments called directorates.

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  4. Putin has historical links to the KGB.

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  5. The KGB had its own military units.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union:
Русский
By meaning 1
Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union:

Origin

From Russian КГБ (KGB), acronym of Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности (Komitét gosudá

From Russian КГБ (KGB), acronym of Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности (Komitét gosudárstvennoj bezopásnosti, “State Security Committee”).

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