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It only took US three years of Russia-Ukraine war to kick a KGB's spying app out of their stores. This is a disaster. This should have been done on day 1.

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Well, with enthusiasm like that it is no wonder China and Russia banned all western social media and are actively trying to replace these services with homegrown. China was first, Russia late to the party, but working on it.

The KGB was dissolved, along with the rest of the Soviet Union, over 30 years ago.

You would think so. Whatever the name, whatever the legal structure, I am pretty sure KGB persists. Or several factions of it.

Renamed/refactored into 3 new agencies (the FSB, GRU and SVR) would be a much better description.

Unfortunately the KGB did not simply dissolve, like nearly all the Warsaw Pact agencies -- and this fact is quite central to the situation we are facing today.

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