The KGB has "a foreign espionage bureau, a domestic counterintelligence bureau, a military administration, a border guard administration, a general affairs bureau, and a KGB station group." At one time, there were more than 500,000 KGB system personnel, including 10,000 in headquarters organs, 200,000 in espionage, counterespionage, and technical support departments, and 300,000 in border guards. In addition, there are 1.5 million informants in the country and 250,000 spy personnel abroad, with an annual budget of $10 billion.

In the territory of the Soviet Union, the KGB set up sub-bureaus in each republic, and most of the leaders of the sub-bureaus were chairmen, and in extremely important places, such as Leningrad and other places, the local KGB chairmen would also become the deputy chairman of the headquarters in Moscow.

The Soviet Republic's focus was on party affairs, while the border areas, such as Serov's, focused on counterespionage and dealing with foreign forces.

Compared with the CIA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the KGB's functions are combined into one, and its strength is even higher than the two, and the 50s to the 80s were the peak of the KGB, and Serov's memory of the KGB's prestige is resounding all over the world, and its influence is even higher than that of the CIA and the FBI.

Unlike the CIA and the FBI, the KGB almost simultaneously took care of both internal and external affairs, and the GRU, which was known as the only star in the Soviet Union, was subordinate to the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army, and more often than not, it was only a subordinate of the KGB, and the chairman of the KGB could almost directly order the GRU to act. The GRU's personnel powers, as well as the planning and arrangement of foreign espionage and intelligence activities, are subject to the supervision and control of the KGB.

It can be said that after defeating the SS during World War II, the KGB had no rivals in the world, and as a department, the KGB's functions and authority were above all other departments, and it could be called the first real power department in the Soviet Union, and Beria and later the Soviet leader Andropov proved the strength of the KGB enough.

It is precisely because of this that Serov weakened by three points almost as soon as he spoke, there is almost no one in this kind of department that they cannot catch, not almost, and if Sherepin did not control the KGB, he was not qualified to launch a coup d'état against Khrushchev at all. Without the support of the KGB, Serepin was not qualified to be an equal in Brezhnev. That is, as long as the chairman of the KGB is not afraid of death, with the forces controlled by the KGB itself, a coup d'état can be carried out.

Beria, the current boss of the KGB, dared to ignore Malenkov, who was still ranked before him, because of the support of the KGB. In Serov's head, the Palace of Culture should at least be understood in name as a library or something, and there are things that should not appear here, such as the bottle of vodka in front of Serov's eyes.

During the Soviet period, although vodka could not be said to be banned in the territory, at least the Soviet men at this time were still far from the drunkard country of Russia in later generations, Serov also wanted to ask Alexey, why did this unscientific thing appear in the Palace of Culture, did he misunderstand the meaning of the word "Palace of Culture"? Is there a law in the eyes of the KGB?

"Comrade Yuri, it's not working time, even a tightrope can't be straightened wirelessly!" Alexei pushed a bottle of vodka in front of Serov and said, "Work and entertainment are the most important thing, especially as an intelligence officer, you need to find a way to relax quickly!" ”

The relaxation method you introduced was drinking? Serov didn't say anything when he arrived, but he felt a little embarrassed after watching Alexei skillfully open the bottle. It's not that Serov can't drink at all, but if he can drink, he has to compare himself with whom, right? On the Internet of China in later generations, the third brother who opened the hanging, and the fighting nation who drank alcohol had a good click rate.

Russians drink like the northernmost northeast region of China, and judging from the quarterly survey, it seems that northeasterners can't drink, who says that the survey won't deceive people? Northeast people don't drink every day, if one day your Northeast friends come to you for a drink, it is ready not to go home and drink to death.

Seeing Alexei look like he was not an outsider, opening his mouth and pouring it like drinking water, Serov was even more convinced of his judgment, his Heilongjiang friend drank like this, you don't care if he died or lived afterwards, anyway, he drank it at the time, and the discomfort was a matter of the future.

"Alexey, don't drink like that!" Serov didn't know if it was like this in cold places, in case it was like this, thinking of the Northeast people's persuasion one after another, Serov had already foreseen his fate.

"Oh, Serov, please continue!" Alexei nodded, "Vodka is still good in Russia, I heard that Poland is also good, Azerbaijan is average here, I always feel as if it is less than a degree......"

Although vodka and liquor are both distilled spirits, they are different from Chinese liquor, and the process of vodka is similar to that of liquor, but there is one point, vodka is generally distilled to make alcohol up to 95 degrees, and then distilled water is desalinated to 40 degrees to 60 degrees, this process makes Serov deeply afraid. If memory serves, 95 proof is the proof of industrial alcohol.

"You KGB are so busy, it's a surprise to see you here!" Serov chatted with each other, although there were still young people who were not very old, if it was a previous life, Serov didn't care about raising his eyes here, or finding a girl to talk to. But seeing a group of working-class brothers and university students here, Serov was a little indelible, and for the first time he found that the twenty-six-year-old first secretary, this identity showed a disadvantage for the first time.

"Yes, it's really busy, a lot of people are coming back from Siberia, and we have to continue to identify!" Alexei burped and said, "I really don't know why we let those sinners come back, we still arrange these people, we can't let them become a factor of social instability!" ”

"How many are there?" Serov asked with a smile.

"About 20,000 people!" Alexei said casually, "We have to give these people a certificate and rearrange their work, of course, maybe by then we have finished identifying, and your Communist Youth League still has some workload!" ”

On March 28, signed by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Voroshilov, 1.2 million people were released and 400,000 cases were suspended. It was the first major event that shook Soviet society after Stalin's death. Beria also presented to the Presidium a report on the rehabilitation of such major cases as the case of the "Mingler nationalist clique", the case of the former commander of the Air Force Shahulin and the People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry Novikov, the artillery marshal Yakovlev, the head of the Artillery Administration and the artillery general Volko Trubenko. On the basis of these reports, the Bureau has taken corresponding rehabilitation resolutions.