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KGB
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Kgb
English
Pronunciation
en /keɪ.d͡ʒi.biː/
en KGB US.ogg US
Etymology 1
From en ru КГБ, acronym of ru Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности State Security Committee.
Proper noun
the KGB
en historical The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union the Soviet security service.
en January 4, 2001 w:Garry Kasparov The Russian President Trades on Fear w:The Wall Street Journal https://archive.is/oD9a5 09 January 2015 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB978557618543476506 International 0099-9660 781541372 https://web.archive.org/web/20150112104226/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB978557618543476506 President Putin's KGB roots have sadly informed a style of governance that is neither reformist nor particularly democratic. The common thread throughout his domestic and foreign policies is his effort to trade on fear -- the fears of Russians that their country is under attack from hostile external forces (Chechens, NATO or free marketeers); and the fears of Westerners that if not for a strong, pragmatic leader, Russia will again become unruly, unstable and potentially aggressive.
en 2019 2018 Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor Penguin Books 9780241972137 4 75 But in 1967 Treholt's trenchant opposition to the Vietnam War attracted the attention of the KGB.
The security service of Belarus.
Translations
Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union
Arabic: ar كَي جِي بِي m, ar كَاي جِي بِي m
Armenian: hy ՊԱԿ
Azerbaijani: az DTK
Belarusian: be КДБ m
Bengali: bn কেজিবি
Bulgarian: bg КГБ m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 克格勃 kègébó
Chuvash: cv ПХК
Finnish: fi KGB
French: fr KGB m
Georgian: ka სუკ
German: de KGB m
Hebrew: he ק.ג.ב. m ka ge be
Hindi: hi केजीबी
Japanese: ja カーゲーベー kāgēbē, ja ケージービー kējībī
Khmer: km កាហ្សេបេ
Korean: ko 카게베, ko 케이지비
Kyrgyz: ky МКК
Latvian: lv VDK m
Macedonian: mk КГБ m
Mongolian: mn УАХХ
Polish: pl KGB m n
Portuguese: pt KGB f
Russian: ru КГБ m
Spanish: es KGB m
Swedish: sv KGB
Turkish: tr KGB
Turkmen: tk DHK
Ukrainian: uk КДБ m
Uzbek: uz DXO
Yiddish: yi קאַגעבע f
security service of Belarus
Belarusian: be КДБ m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 克格勃
French: fr KGB m
Polish: pl KGB m n
Russian: ru КГБ m
Ukrainian: uk КДБ m
See also
en FSB
en NKVD
en Cheka
Further reading
Etymology 2
Noun
en electronics en known good board.
Translations
Known Good Board
en Espionage Soviet Union Belarus
French
Etymology
fr ru КГБ, through phonetic spelling of Komitét Gosudárstvennoj Bezopásnosti and acronymization.
Pronunciation
ka-gé-bé
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-KGB.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Bananax47-KGB.wav <<France>> (<<Agen>>)
Proper noun
m
en KGB (the former Soviet State Security Committee)
Indonesian
Pronunciation
ka.gé.bé
Noun
id kenaikan gaji berkala regular salary increases
id anatomy immunology id kelenjar getah bening
Proper noun
id historical en KGB the former Soviet State Security Committee
Further reading
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl :bor ru:КГБ + 1
Pronunciation
ka.gie'be LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-KGB.wav K.G.B
Proper noun
m-in or n yes
pl historical en KGB the former Soviet State Security Committee
en KGB the current Belarusian security service
Derived terms
pl nouns kagebista kagiebista KGB-ista
Further reading
pl initialisms
pl Belarus Espionage Organizations Soviet Union
Portuguese
Proper noun
f
en KGB Russian secret police
pt Russia
Slovak
Etymology
sk ru КГБ, through phonetic spelling of Komitét Gosudárstvennoj Bezopásnosti and acronymization.
Pronunciation
kágébé
Proper noun
n
en KGB (the former Soviet State Security Committee)
Further reading
Spanish
es:
Pronunciation
ka ge be +
Proper noun
m
en KGB soviet KGB