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The Economics Of The Surveillance State
The Economics Of The Surveillance State
Authored by John Wilder,
“That was a Beria operation in Stalin’s time. It was deactivated twenty years ago.”
– The Living Daylights
How did KGB agents commit suicide? Two shots to the back of the head. (all photo content as-found)
Remember Lavrentiy Beria’s cheerful advice: “Show me the man, and I will find the crime”? Back in the Soviet Union they had so many laws on the books that everybody broke at least one before lunch, I mean, when lunch was available. And if they didn’t, they could make up...
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