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Youth resistance and KGB activity in the 9th decade of XX century.
The KGB Vilnius City Division was particularly interested in ‘anti–social youth groups’, hippies, punks, and Krishna followers. The situation in youth meeting places – discotheques, clubs, cafés, as well as karate sections – was monitored.
Mindaugas Žiūkas
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Where Do Older Pedestrians Experience a Risk of Being Killed in a Motor Vehicle Crash?
The Figure depicts an example of the density of all the health services within a 1‐km radial buffer of a location where a pedestrian was fatally struck in a motor vehicle crash (case location). The study finds that pedestrian fatalities among older adults were more likely to occur in areas with a high density of health care facilities.
Kathryn G. Burford +8 more
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The HR Unit of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSR: 1954–1991
This article describes the structure and operational functions of the HR Unit of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSR, provides an analysis of the ethnic composition of the human resources of the KGB, identifies the peculiarities of training and education of ...
Lina Okuličiūtė
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Lithuania‘s relations with the West within the KGB Web
The mechanisms for maintaining control of the Soviet territory and information, the so-called ‘Iron Curtain’, were very diverse (political, legal, coercive, agency networking) and were supported by certain institutions.
Kristina Burinskaitė
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Abstract This article analyzes how the Leningrad Affair, one of the most poorly understood of Joseph Stalin’s purges, was weaponized by Nikita Khrushchev and his comrades‐in‐arms in order to consolidate power during the 1950s and early 1960s. An exposé of how Khrushchev accused four different people of being responsible for the purge over the span of ...
David Brandenberger
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There are very few documentary sources on the activities of the KGB of the Latvian SSR during the period when the KGB organs of the Baltic republics were playing operative games with the intelligence services of Sweden and Great Britain.
Janis Vasilevskis
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The USSR and The GDR: Mutual Collapse
The Soviet Union had a number of satellite states, where communist puppet regimes were propped up in order to serve the interests of the Soviet Union. The Eastern Bloc was established with the goal of spreading the Soviet style of government, regardless ...
Alessi, Jessica M.
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ABSTRACT Objective Determine the effect of oral macrocyclic lactone heartworm‐preventative medications on retinal function and chromatic pupillary light reflex (cPLR) in healthy dogs. Animals Studied Cross‐sectional retrospective: 60 dogs (n = 33 females) with heartworm medication administration status and electroretinogram (ERG) data available ...
Ryan G. Hopper +6 more
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Juozas Keliuotis in the Target of KGB in 1956–1978
The life of Juozas Keliuotis, one of the most conspicuous cultural workers of Lithuania, in Soviet times shows the specificity of the psychological pressure on intellectuals.
Lina Okuličiūtė
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KGB against former political prisoners and deportees
The Soviet totalitarian regime sought to crush and destroy the real and potential enemies of the new regime through mass repression in Lithuania between 1940 and 1953.
Kristina Burinskaitė
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