The '''Committee for State Security''' (Russian: ''Комитет государственной безопасности'') was the "Sword and Shield" of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. While its primary function was internal repression of people's basic rights, an external reconnaissance division as it is called, or intelligence organization, also handled spreading the gospel of Marxist international workers revolution to overthrow exiting legitimate governments worldwide, or "the bourgeois order" as Marxists refer to it. | The '''Committee for State Security''' (Russian: ''Комитет государственной безопасности'') was the "Sword and Shield" of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. While its primary function was internal repression of people's basic rights, an external reconnaissance division as it is called, or intelligence organization, also handled spreading the gospel of Marxist international workers revolution to overthrow exiting legitimate governments worldwide, or "the bourgeois order" as Marxists refer to it. |