Editing Active measures (section)

=== Installing and undermining governments ===
{{See also|Russia–European Union relations#Allegations of Russian intimidation and destabilisation of EU states}}

After World War II, Soviet security organizations played a key role in installing [[Satellite state#Soviet Union|puppet communist governments]] in [[Eastern Europe]], the [[China|People's Republic of China]], [[North Korea]], and later [[Afghanistan]]. Their strategy included mass [[political repression]]s and establishment of subordinate secret services in all occupied countries.<ref name="Ovseenko">{{cite book |last=Antonov-Ovseenko |first=Anton |author-link=Anton Antonov-Ovseenko |date=1999 |title=Beria |language=ru |location=Moscow |publisher=[[AST (publisher)|AST]] |isbn=5-237-03178-1}}</ref><ref name="Gordievsky">{{cite book |first1=Oleg |last1=Gordievsky |author1-link=Oleg Gordievsky |first2=Christopher |last2=Andrew |author2-link=Christopher Andrew (historian) |name-list-style=amp |date=1990 |title=KGB: The Inside Story |location=London, UK |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=0-340-48561-2}}</ref>

Some of the active measures were undertaken by the Soviet secret services against their own governments or communist rulers. Russian historians [[Anton Antonov-Ovseenko]] and [[Edvard Radzinsky]] suggested that [[Joseph Stalin]] was killed by associates of [[NKVD]] chief [[Lavrentiy Beria]], based on the interviews of a former Stalin bodyguard and circumstantial evidence.<ref name="Radzinsky">{{cite book |last=Radzinsky |first=Edvard |author-link=Edvard Radzinsky |date=1997 |title=Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives |location=New York City |publisher=Doubleday |isbn=0-385-47954-9}}</ref> According to [[Yevgenia Albats]]' allegations, [[Chairman of the KGB|Chief of the KGB]] [[Vladimir Semichastny]] was among the plotters against [[Nikita Khrushchev]] in 1964, which led to the latter's downfall.<ref name="Albats">{{cite book |first1=Yevgenia |last1=Albats |author1-link=Yevgenia Albats |first2=Catherine A. |last2=Fitzpatrick |author2-link=Catherine A. Fitzpatrick |name-list-style=amp |date=1994 |title=The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia—Past, Present, and Future |location=New York City |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=0-374-52738-5}}</ref>

KGB Chairman [[Yuri Andropov]] reportedly struggled for power with [[Leonid Brezhnev]].<ref name="Soloviev">{{cite book |first1=Vladimir |last1=Solovyov |first2=Elena |last2=Klepikova |name-list-style=amp |translator-first=Guy |translator-last=Daniels |date=1984 |title=Yuri Andropov: A Secret Passage into the Kremlin |location=London, UK |publisher=R. Hale |isbn=0-7090-1630-1}}</ref> The [[Soviet coup attempt of 1991]] against [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] was organized by KGB Chairman [[Vladimir Kryuchkov]] and other hardliners.<ref name="Albats" /> [[Viktor Pavlovich Barannikov|Gen. Viktor Barannikov]], then the former State Security head, became one of the leaders of the uprising against [[Boris Yeltsin]] during the [[Russian constitutional crisis of 1993]].<ref name="Albats" />

The current Russian [[intelligence service]], the [[Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)|SVR]], allegedly works to undermine governments of former Soviet [[satellite state]]s like [[Poland]], the [[Baltic states]],<ref name="Soldatov2">{{cite news |url=http://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/22n/n22n-s15.shtml |script-title=ru:Наши Спецслужбы — На Территории Бывшего Союза |trans-title=Our Special Services are at work in the territories of the former Soviet Union |first1=Andrei |last1=Soldatov |first2=Irina |last2=Dorogan |name-list-style=amp |date=27 March 2006 |newspaper=[[Novaya Gazeta]] |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212062546/http://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/22n/n22n-s15.shtml |archive-date=2007-02-12}}</ref> and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].<ref name="Giorgadze">{{cite news |url=http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?idr=1&id=703046 |title=Moscow Accused of Backing Georgian Revolt |first1=Olga |last1=Allenova |first2=Vladimir |last2=Novikov |name-list-style=amp |date=September 7, 2006 |newspaper=[[Kommersant]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190833/http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?idr=1&id=703046 |archive-date=2007-09-30}}</ref> During the [[2006 Georgian-Russian espionage controversy]], several Russian GRU case officers were accused by Georgian authorities of preparations to commit sabotage and terrorist acts.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}