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*GRU VS RF [Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie vooruzhennykh sil Rossiiskoi Federatsii - The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation], 1991–present.  

*GRU VS RF [Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie vooruzhennykh sil Rossiiskoi Federatsii - The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation], 1991–present.  

When the [[Soviet Union]] dissolved in 1991, the [[KGB]] was disbanded. However, exactly as GRU defector [[Victor Suvorov]] predicted and explained years earlier, the GRU survived. The GRU has always been staffed with military experts, and not Communist Party ideologues. In fact, the GRU often found itself at odds and threatened by the KGB, whom GRU officers regarded as non-professional intelligence officers and drunks.  With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, most residents of Russia and former Soviet-bloc countries had never heard of the GRU, whose primary task was defending the homeland. Offensive or aggressive operations against sovereign nations were the design of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], of which the GRU would be compelled to fulfill by threats from the KGB of execution or imprisonment in the Soviet [[gulag]] system.  The GRU, being the central brain of the only armed group within the [[USSR]], was always regarded with suspicion and mistrust by communist party rulers, who always deemed them a potential domestic threat to their power.

When the [[Soviet Union]] dissolved in 1991, the [[KGB]] was disbanded. However, exactly as GRU defector [[Victor Suvorov]] predicted and explained years earlier, the GRU survived. The GRU has always been staffed with military experts, and not Communist Party ideologues. In fact, the GRU often found itself at odds and threatened by the KGB, whom GRU officers regarded as non-professional intelligence officers and drunks.  With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, most residents of Russia and former Soviet-bloc countries had never heard of the GRU, whose primary task was defending the homeland. Offensive or aggressive operations against sovereign nations were the design of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], of which the GRU would be compelled to fulfill by threats from the KGB of execution or imprisonment in the Soviet [[gulag]] system.  The GRU, being the central brain of the only armed group within the [[USSR]], was regarded with suspicion and mistrust by communist party rulers, who always deemed them a potential domestic threat to their power.

As military experts, the GRU played an important part in arms control negotiations with [[the West]] during the [[Cold War]].

As military experts, the GRU played an important part in arms control negotiations with [[the West]] during the [[Cold War]].