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KGB

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Overview

KGB is an Australian comedy television series. Created and directed by Luke and Dan Riches, it starred Clarence Ryan and Bjorn Stewart as a pair of detectives in the Perth suburbs of Koondoola, Girrawheen and Balga. It was released by the ABC for NAIDOC Week in 2019 and had nearly 100,000 plays in its first two weeks.

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“The Soviet people have boundless trust in their Communist Party, they trust it because for the party there have never been and are no other interests than the vital interests of the Soviet people. To justify this trust means to go ahead along the road of Communist construction, to work for the further progress of our socialist homeland.”
— Yuri Andropov, as quoted in "Text of the Speech by Andropov", The New York Times (November 13, 1982).
“Across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of Marx and Engels and even Lenin. Fools. There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country; that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work.”
— Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six (1998), p. 515.
“My arms are up to my elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.”
— Nikita Khrushchev, reported in Melvyn P. Leffler (2007). For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. Macmillan, p. 496. .
“Whether the Soviet Union was an empire or not—the debate on this still continues—it died the death of an empire, splitting along lines roughly defined by ethnic and linguistic boundaries.”
— Serhii Plokhy, The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (2014)
“In 1944, investigator, proud of his faultless logic [...] told Babitsh: "Investigation and the process are merely juridical figuration, that can't change your destiny, which has been determined before. If it is necessary to shoot you, you'll be shot, even if you're completely innocent."”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago.
“We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.”
— Boris Yeltsin, reported in H. Paul Jeffers, The 100 Greatest Heroes. Citadel Press, p. 60. .

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