[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Russia celebrates Putin's most important holiday
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Russia celebrates Putin's most important holiday
12/20/2005 15:23
KGB, or the State Security Committee, was established in the USSR a year
after Stalin's death
Today, on December 20, Russia celebrates 87 years since the establishment
of national security agencies. Eighty-seven years ago (7) 20 December 1917, the
Council of People's Commissaries ordered to establish the All-Russian Emergency
Commission. The new department was organized to struggle against
counter-revolutionist forces and sabotage in the Soviet Russia. Notorious
Soviet revolutionary Felix Dzerjinsky became the first chairman of the new
security service.
The State Security Committee was established a year after Joseph Stalin's
death, on 13 March 1954. The committee, known for the Russian initials as KGB
(Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti), became the most outstanding
governmental agency of the USSR. KGB's history ended on April 3 1995, when
Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the law "About the Federal Security
Service of the Russian Federation." The signing of the new law renamed KGB to
FSB - the Federal Security Bureau.
"Renaming the KGB was an absolutely outrageous idea. It ruined an
internationally-known brand name. Not every foreigner knows what FSB stands
for. Some of them mix up FSB with FSD. FSD means "female sexual dysfunction" -
the disease invented by pharmaceutical companies to launch the production of
Viagra for women," Russian author Viktor Pelevin wrote in one of his books.
The day to celebrate the work of Russian security agencies originally
appeared on the calendar in 1995. The holiday was officially introduced
according to the decree of the first Russian President, Boris Yeltsin.
Nowadays, December 20 is considered the professional holiday for those working
at the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), Foreign Intelligence Service, Federal
Custodial Service and the Central Directorate for Special Programs of the
Russian Federation President. All of these special services used to be united
under the name of the State Security Committee of the USSR, or KGB.
President Putin, who used to work in Russian special services himself,
congratulated all security officers on their professional holiday yesterday.
Putin said that the people working at Russian security services defend not only
Russia's national interests, but fundamental grounds of the Russian state
structure. "You are fulfilling the goal, which is highly important for the
whole civilized world. It goes about the struggle against international
terrorism. Russian special services play a very important role at this point,"
Putin said.
The whole world has been taking immense efforts recently within the scope
of security issues. A draft law was introduced to the US Congress about the
destruction of terrorists. The law allows to eliminate the leaders of foreign
countries and well-known criminals. US special services tried to eliminate
Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein have been deprived
of their powers because of the US-led military campaigns.
On the other hand, Western media outlets continue to attack both Russian
special services and the government for the ongoing anti-terrorist operation in
Chechnya. Many respectable Western journalists write that Putin has gone too
far with the elimination of "Chechen rebels," although there is only one proper
word to describe those criminals - 'terrorists,' not 'rebels.'
Western reporters feel free to dwell upon the subject of the Ukrainian
president's poisoning. A special expertise showed the presence of poison in
Viktor Yushchenko's body. Then they launched a story about KGB agents or their
successors, who supposedly have an extensive experience in such "toxic
affairs." One has to admit that there was a toxicological laboratory
established in USSR's secret services in 1921. On the other hand, let us
recollect CIA's numerous attempts to poison Fidel Castro. US agents even wanted
to make Castro lose his beard with the help of a special chemical. The
hair-losing substance was added in the shoe polish, which was supposed to be
applied on Castro's boots. Apparently, the Cuban leader was polishing his shoes
himself and did not have an American habit of keeping a shoe-polishing servant.
Brushing all those disputes and mutual attacks aside, one may only
congratulate Russian special agents on their professional holiday. In Russia,
people refer to them as "invisible front warriors." Those warriors risked their
lives saving hostages from the Moscow music theater and the school in Beslan.
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