The KGB was declared dead in 1991. But that was only a funeral in name. Three decades later, the men who once wore its insignia now rule Russia—deciding who gets rich, who goes to prison, and who disappears without a trace. At the top sits Vladimir Putin, a career KGB officer who never stopped being one. In this video, Elvira Bary takes you deep inside the siloviki mindset—how these secret police elites think, what they believe, and why their worldview still shapes Russia’s every move at home and abroad. This is not just history—it’s the operating manual of the system that controls one of the most powerful nations on Earth.
