1. Filipp Denisovich Bobkov was a Soviet and Russian KGB functionary, who worked as the chief of the KGB subunit responsible for repressing dissent, which was responsible for suppression of internal dissent in the former Soviet Union.
11 Facts About Filipp Bobkov
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Filipp Bobkov was widely regarded the chief KGB ideologist or "KGB brain".
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Filipp Bobkov was very instrumental in creation of KGB-controlled political organizations, such as the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public, established in 1983.
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Filipp Bobkov allegedly invented Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, according to Soviet Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev.
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However, Filipp Bobkov denied these allegations, saying that he did not support the creation of a "Zubatov-style pseudo-party under KGB control, which directs interests and sentiments of certain social groups".
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Former Politburo deputy and reformist leader Alexander Yakovlev has claimed that Filipp Bobkov did not solve these conflicts, but rather created them in an effort to maintain the power of the KGB by showing its necessity.
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Documents discovered by political scientist Robert van Voren in the Stasi archives show that in summer 1989 Filipp Bobkov came to Berlin and told Stasi Director Erich Mielke that German reunification was the work of mentally ill persons.
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Filipp Bobkov allegedly supervised the transfer of Communist Party money to foreign banks prior to the 1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt.
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In October 1990, Filipp Bobkov ordered the creation of commercial firms and banks, which were managed by KGB officers and their "trusted contacts".
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Filipp Bobkov officially retired in 1991 and organized a private security service in the Media Most company called SB MOST Group, which included thousands of his former KGB colleagues.
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Filipp Bobkov worked as a personal security adviser of Russian Parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov.