Dec. 28, 2023
The KGB Roughly Compared to Modern Day
January’s issue of the History Today has a great article on the creation and changing attitudes of the KGB after Stalin’s death. One fact which leapt out was the large number of persons being followed by the KGB in 1967; almost 6,750, according to a leaked report.
That sounds an awful lot, but is it?
By 1967 the population of the USSR was almost 241,720,000 (the rough figure for 1970), 6,750 people is just 0.000028% of the population, or 7 in 25,000,000 people being followed.