::::Where many history texts err about KGB & SS is in stating they were crested to terrorize the civilian population. While they certainly did that, their primary function for being created was to subjugate the one institution the Party deemed a threat to its control - the military - which in both the Russian and German cases had guns and lacked the ideological underpinings of the Psrty. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|CIA vs Trump. Who's gonna win?]]</sup> 11:30, 23 February 2017 (EST) | ::::Where many history texts err about KGB & SS is in stating they were crested to terrorize the civilian population. While they certainly did that, their primary function for being created was to subjugate the one institution the Party deemed a threat to its control - the military - which in both the Russian and German cases had guns and lacked the ideological underpinings of the Psrty. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|CIA vs Trump. Who's gonna win?]]</sup> 11:30, 23 February 2017 (EST) |