Dzerzhinsky's corner, Kalinouski, Polish spies: Belarusian KGB invites to online museum
The Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) created an online museum on its website.
One can take a web tour of the rooms of the real KGB museum located in its Minsk department. It presents the history of the Cheka-GPU-NKVD-KGB in the BSSR.
During the tour one can also come across other prominent historical figures who are hardly have something in common with the Soviet and Belarusian special services. There are, for example, portraits of Lew Sapieha, Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (16th century), and Kastus Kalinouski, a leader of the January Uprising (19th century).
Another fragment of the exhibition lets a visitor into ‘the structure of Polish special services fighting against Byelorussian SRR in the 1920s’.
Felix Dzerzhinsky’s corner, which is devoted to the founder of the Cheka and his family, enjoys pride of place among the exhibits.
Unfortunately, most information cannot be read due to low quality of pictures.
The KGB Museum opened in 2007. It would be the first place to be visited by fresh-baked Committee officers, state-run media reported 10 years ago.
