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Uno Laht, Estonian KGB officer and author (died 2008)

Uno Laht

Estonian writer and poet

Uno Laht, was an Estonian writer and poet who wrote about the characteristics of everyday Soviet life in poetry. Laht was also a NKVD officer who participated in arrests and deportations in 1940s.
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KGB

Main Soviet security agency from 1954 to 1991

The Committee for State Security, abbreviated as KGB was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD. Attached to the Council of Ministers, it was the…
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