LPSR Valsts drošības komitejas zinātniskās izpētes komisija

Control and repressions of the totalitarian society:
research of the documents and its methodology
Directorate (GRU) responsible for the foreign military
intelligence and their cover institutions. The LSSR KGB was
not an exception in recruiting their staff employees from the
nomenclature of the Komsomol. During the Stalinist period,
the nomenclature closely cooperating with the KGB had
participated in the crimes of the Soviet totalitarian regime.
Evidence for the previously mentioned comes through the
concept of secrecy for Komsomol activities, in particular, the
subscription for keeping the work of Komsomol secret, for
example, its participation in repressions.
After the report of Nikita Khrushchev during the 20 th
Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956,
partial De-Stalinization took place. The leadership of the
Komsomol of the LSSR, following instructions of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of the LSSR, nominated
their members for positions at various levels of the KGB and
provided support for renewing its network of agents and
staff. However, overall, the nomination process concerning
the members of the Komsomol of the LSSR can be judged as
comparatively inactive in filling positions within the KGB. The
nomination process was much more active in other republics
of the USSR, including occupied Lithuania.
By the mid-1960s the situation had changed,
however, and the involvement of Latvians in the LSSR KGB
remained comparatively low. In 1959, because of the
campaign against “bourgeois nationalism” and the national
communists relying on compromising information provided
by the KGB, the first secretary of the Komsomol of the LSSR
Vladislavs Ruskulis was dismissed along with other leaders of
the Komsomol of the LSSR. Overall, the De-Stalinization
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