kgb started taking over the ussr after brezhnev's first stroke in 1975, and never left >  n-kvitsinsky_doctrine by the late 1980s the kgb had formulated the exit strategy for russia - "pipelines instead of tanks" - replacing the political influence of tanks, with just as hard physical, inelastic pipelines. yeltsin was in the communist party. such a "liberal opposition." in 1993 he coup'd the parliament - such a liberal he was. yeltsin was supposed to accommodate the late 80s/early 90s liberal aspirations of russians and tarnish the image of liberalism, to make space for the "great comeback" of soviet security hardliners (who actually never really left) in reality both yeltsin and putin, just as gorbachev before them, were and are all kgb stooges. faces, figureheads. they have occupied positions, but the actual policy and strategy is crafted in lubianka. nothing changed in almost 50 years
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