Daughters of the KGB: Moscow's secret spies, sleepers and assassins of the Cold War

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pt. 1: Setting the Scene: 1. Through a Glass Darkly -- 2. Life is a Game of Chess -- pt. 2: The Stasi in German Democratic Republic -- 3. Deutschland Unter Russland -- 4. Creating a New Class of Criminals -- 5. Fear as a Political Tool -- 6. The New Class Enemy -- 7. Lies, Spies and More Spies -- 8. War on the West -- 9. War in the Air -- 10. HVA Versus MI5 -- 11. Death of the Stasi -- pt. 3 State Terror in Central Europe: 12. The Polish UB -- Crushing a Suffering Nation -- 13. Betrayal, Beatings, Elections and Executions -- 14. The Horizontal Spy -- 15. The StB Versus the Czechs and Slovaks -- 16. The ABC of Espionage -- Agents, Blackmail, Codes -- 17. The AVO and Bloodshed in Budapest -- 18. Magyars on Mission Abroad -- pt. 4 State Terror in Eastern Europe: 19. The KDS, Dimitrov's Lethal Homecoming Present to Bulgaria -- 20. A Different Umbrella in Bucharest -- 21. Albania, From Serfdom to the Sigurimi Secret Police.;Everyone has heard of the KGB, but little has been published about its 'daughter' organisations through which Moscow terrorised the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after the Second World War. Staffed by Moscow-trained nationals closely monitored by KGB 'ambassadors', Poland's UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVH, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS and the ultra-Stalinist Stasi of the German Democratic Republic all repressed democratic movements in their respective countries for forty years. pt. 1: Setting the Scene: 1. Through a Glass Darkly -- 2. Life is a Game of Chess -- pt. 2: The Stasi in German Democratic Republic -- 3. Deutschland Unter Russland -- 4. Creating a New Class of Criminals -- 5. Fear as a Political Tool -- 6. The New Class Enemy -- 7. Lies, Spies and More Spies -- 8. War on the West -- 9. War in the Air -- 10. HVA Versus MI5 -- 11. Death of the Stasi -- pt. 3 State Terror in Central Europe: 12. The Polish UB -- Crushing a Suffering Nation -- 13. Betrayal, Beatings, Elections and Executions -- 14. The Horizontal Spy -- 15. The StB Versus the Czechs and Slovaks -- 16. The ABC of Espionage -- Agents, Blackmail, Codes -- 17. The AVO and Bloodshed in Budapest -- 18. Magyars on Mission Abroad -- pt. 4 State Terror in Eastern Europe: 19. The KDS, Dimitrov's Lethal Homecoming Present to Bulgaria -- 20. A Different Umbrella in Bucharest -- 21. Albania, From Serfdom to the Sigurimi Secret Police.