History 17/03/20 “Secret agents” KGB: in the Soviet Union who became informers
Preferences for spies, informers, informants, agents or just informers in the Soviet Union was different, not necessarily measured by money. Many “Judases” spodvig on whistleblowing basic fear for one’s own fate.
And hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens laid neighbors, colleagues, friends and acquaintances and even free of charge, in obedience to civic duty, or for ideological reasons, guided, so to speak, “party line”.
In the camps, sold for a bowl of soup
the First statistical information on the number of informers of the NKVD were consolidated during Stalin’s repression of the people’s Commissar of internal Affairs Yezhov. In a report to Stalin, he wrote that the total number of informants in the USSR – over half a million people. I pay only for the operation of the key agents of the KGB, they were called agents. In addition to the salary (amount is Yezhov was not specified, but the so-called “residents”, “foremen” petty informers, paid then to 300 rubles), the agents were paid the amounts for “costs” (organization of drinking, buying gifts, etc.). Specusocial, to inform on artists, clergy, engineers and other, more visible among the gray Soviet masses of citizens, according to Yezhov, he worked most often for free.
In Stalin’s camps, informers for whistleblowing pay from 40 to 60 rubles. It was risky, because the disclosure of informers or killed as a punishment for murder has tightened, inflicted such injuries that the rest of my life (a year or two), the rat spent in the hospital, where he died. Recruited informers among the prisoners held in the Gulag. Bought them more often for food. Most agreed. From 1946 to 1947 only in the camps of the Leningrad region the number of informers among the German prisoners of war increased more than 10 times, from 137 to a thousand.
“are you Going to bring – help service”
Official data on the number of informants in the Soviet Union does not exist (even Yezhov, these figures were estimated). Snitches “drumming” in almost all spheres of activity of the Soviet state, including creative. For example, the famous actor and Director Mikhail Kozakov in his book admitted that collaborated with the KGB for 32 years, since 1956.
Of the many motives for pushing the Soviet man on whistleblowing, the decisive financial incentive was not the informers would be allowed to travel abroad (which in Soviet times was for the most a pipe dream), to help promote the career ladder.
to Recruit the security officers could hardly not any of those was of special interest to the candidate put before the choice: either he works for the KGB, or he “pulls the plug” will do everything that the actor gave the role a Director is to make films, the artist is to organize exhibitions, writers to be published, etc. of the Cossacks practically the only representative of the Soviet creative intelligentsia, who made a kind of coming out. Actually, the “secret agents” in this environment, as in any other, was a lot.
relatively speaking, intellectuals writing (or signing) this kind of appeals made their peaceful existence. For example, the list of names of signatories at the time, extremely negative reviews on the works of Solzhenitsyn, are the names of such prominent Soviet writers, such as K. Fedin, Marietta Shaginyan, Konstantin Simonov, Yuri Bondarev, A. Barto… Noted in this sad list and actors Boris Chirkov, Mikhail Zharov.
As encouraged police informants
In the 40 years of the twentieth century the police have already established the system of the informants among ordinary people from a criminal environment, helped law enforcement officers to identify and solve crimes. The system had several levels, the highest of which was the so-called “agents-international”, the catactivities designed to send to infiltrate the thieves Wednesday in another region. “The resident” (“looking” for ordinary informants) since 1945, formally received on a monthly basis not less than 500 rubles. For payment of informers were spent millions, only in 1952, at the criminal investigation “residents” in the USSR were paid more than 2.7 million rubles.
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the Soviet militia, the question of payment of rewards to informers were regulated by the law “On operative-search activity” (in the new edition of the works now). It was enough to write a report to the superiors for allocation of funds for “information security.” For the released amount (it is different depending on the importance of the reported information) operas then had to report with the application document signed by the informant. However, this has created a breeding ground for corruption, often government money to informers is not reached.
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