Victims of KGB Repression Commemorated
Victims of KGB persecution were commemorated in Moscow Thursday.
As part of Russia's annual national remembrance, the names of those killed under the Soviet regime for political dissent were read aloud outside the former KGB headquarters in Moscow. The ceremony lasted more than 12 hours.
The KGB — the chief intelligence agency for the Soviet Union — was responsible for foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence, protecting Soviet leadership, as well as combating dissent. The KGB was known for using brutal tactics to suppress dissent, and among its many victims were Catholics, including priests and bishops, who were arrested and exiled to forced labor camps in Siberia, where a number of them were worked to death.
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