Russia's Top Secret Assassination Squad: KGB's 13th Division

In 1940, the Bolshevik revolutionary and first head of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky, was offed in Mexico City. Trotsky fled the Soviet Union in 1928 after he came out at the bottom of a power struggle with Josef Stalin, a position many people had found themselves in.

The offing of real and imagined foes had a long history in Russia. Still, it was during the early Soviet era when an entire branch of the intelligence gathering and spy apparatus of the country was given its own very top secret department within the NKVD in 1936. The department was called the "Directorate of Special Tasks." The NKVD underwent many changes after WWII and became the "MGB." In the MGB, the department was known as "Spets Byuro #1" for "Special Purpose Office #1". It was also known by more sinister and 007-like names such as "The Chamber" and "Lab #1".

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[bunnygirl]

Tactics to crush your political opponents coming to an FBI field office near you!

[SukhoyBoy]

They all also have one thing in common, they were in good contact with NATO officials.

[mrs.hancock]

Leon Trotsky born
Lev Davidovich Bronstein

Vladimir Lenin born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

Joseph Stalin born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

[AlexFeature]

I love the absolute landslide of eveidence presented here. Well done!

[tomfrazier]

Ice picks/axes are often confused. Ice picks/axes are for climbing and hiking in alpine conditions. A 3-4" wooden handle with a 4-6" tempered metal spike was a standard kitchen tool in the U.S. for 100+ years. Initially they were used to chip useable chunks of ice off blocks, that had been commercially available in the U.S. since 1868.

[sblyon]

Alexei Navaly flew to Berlin, not London

[summerkagan]

Was the thirteenth directorate the same as the SMERSH that Ian Fleming made so famous in his James Bond novels?

[andrzejzie]

Trotsky and Lenin followed the scripts of Marx and Engels, the western think tank pioneered by Thomas Aquinas who's philosophy is the social philosophy of Vatican today. Let's not forget that the October Revolution was financed by the West and planed and executed by Jesuits under watchful eye of Superior General Wlodimir Ledochowski (born in Poland). Stalin received Jesuit education sponsored by Jesuit priest Yakobi "Koba" Egnatashvili, who paid for his schooling at the Tiflis seminary, and became Jesuit priest himself.
KGB was an evil organization and only more wicked than KGB is CIA.

[jokhard]

I don't want to nitpick, but I think you would have gotten much closer to the original pronounciation if you had pronounced it "Bureau" instead of "Buy-Euro", which I'm 100% sure the Soviets didn't call the office

[thesaints--andrew.]

Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Very interesting video.

[afrikasmith]

I thought Wayne wasn't the only popular actor that spoke out against Communism....🤔

[artonieminen]

Facts please!!!! Navalnyi was flown from Tomsk to Berlin, Germany. German experts/doctors saved his life in Charitee hospital

[PavelAVasilevich]

Berlin is where Navalny flew and recovered.

[HighSpeedNoDrag]

I heard long ago that Stalin despised The Duke.

[andrewamarhashitei]

2:50, pls I don't trust this part. Were you paid by the Western Intelligence to create this kind of video??