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Line 19: − − 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 and technical experts, the GRU played an important part in arms control negotiations with [[the West]] during the [[Cold War]].
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'''GRU''' stands for '''Glavnoe razvedyvatel’noe upravlenie''', or '''Main Intelligence Directorate'''. Since 1942, except for a few brief periods, GRU has been the acronym for the [[Soviet]] (now [[Russia]]n) military intelligence service. Since its inception in 1918, this service has had a series of names, the best-known of which are listed here:
'''GRU''' stands for '''Glavnoe razvedyvatel’noe upravlenie''', or '''Main Intelligence Directorate'''. Since 1942, except for a few brief periods, GRU has been the acronym for the [[Soviet]] (now [[Russia]]n) military intelligence service.
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 and technical experts, the GRU played an important part in arms control negotiations with [[the West]] during the [[Cold War]].
==History==
Since its inception in 1918, this service has had a series of names, the best-known of which are listed here:
*Razvedupr [Razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie shtaba RKKA - The Intelligence Directorate of the Staff of the Worker and Peasant Red Army], 1921-1924;
*Razvedupr [Razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie shtaba RKKA - The Intelligence Directorate of the Staff of the Worker and Peasant Red Army], 1921-1924;
*GRU VS SSSR [Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie vooruzhennykh sil SSSR - The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of the USSR], 1955-1991;
*GRU VS SSSR [Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie vooruzhennykh sil SSSR - The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of the USSR], 1955-1991;
*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.
==See also==
==See also==