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eventually receive the legal qualification of being an absolutely criminal apparatus.
Only since the Gorbachev era has the Soviet Union been experiencing
the divergence from those criminal and inhuman laws and standards.
I will attempt to present a brief overview of the Moscow archives that store
materials on the cooperation of the Soviet secret police and the MGB-KGB
intelligence with the state security authorities of Central and Eastern Europe, or
the countries of the former Warsaw bloc.
The Russian State Archive of the Socio-Political History (РГАСПИ) stores
documents of the ВКП(б)-КПСС (All-Union Communist Party – The Communist
Party of the Soviet Union). which were established in 1952. It also includes
master copies of the Politburo resolutions concerning the organization and provisions
of the Soviet MGB-KGB advisors in the countries of Eastern Europe.
Documents relating to this topic can also be found in special funds of Stalin,
Molotov, Zhdanov, etc. These documents are accessible to researches only in
part (almost 70 %). Unfortunately, their full access is not feasible, and a whole
range of them remain classified – which is in conflict with Russian law.
The Russian State Archive of Modern History (РГАН) stores the documents
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1952 – 1991. It also includes
document files of the Politburo and reports of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party (ЦК КПСС), which deal with the mutual relations of the
KGB with the state security authorities of its satellites. Access to these documents
is very limited (only up to 10 %). We can only count on a very small
collection of declassified documents from fund no. 89.
The Central Archive of the Federal Security Services (ЦА ФСБ) stores significant
documents referring to all the details of preparing the show trials of
Lászlo Rajk 2 (Hungary 1949), Trajco Kostov 3 (Bulgaria 1949), Rudolf Slán­
2 László Rajk (8. 5. 1909 – 15. 10. 1949) – The Ministry of the Interior; The Ministry
of Foreign Affairs since 1948. The fabricated trial where he was accused
of teaming up with an imperialist agent, the Yugoslavian leader Tito, lasted for
less than a month. It is interesting that Rajk had participated in fabricating trials
that facilitated usurpation of power in the country before falling victim to one of
them. (P. Košický’s note)
3 Trajco Kostov Dzunev (17. 6. 1897 – 16. 12. 1949)– Deputy Prime Minister and
the General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Kostov was accused
with ten other party members in a fabricated trial for an anti-Soviet propaganda
and disloyalty to the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the only of the accused