Why Russia is so special? And why the FSB is so powerful tool?

 Why Russia is so special? And why the FSB is so powerful tool? 

The same way we must ask, why the Russian government afraid West? 

The thing is that the most powerful governmental authority is the FSB, and the power of that organization is that it can make everybody the informant or agent provocateur. They can just fake a couple of documents, and the uncomfortable person turns to the provocateur, whose mission is to give the reason, that OMON-troops would start to crush the demonstrations. 

The methods of that security service are taking straight from the Tsar's security police "Okhrana", what used professional provocateurs to provocate the rebels, what Tsar could crush by using the military power. And the prosecutions that the opposition would get are the well-known stuff like "spying for other countries", what is a good way to close the person out from politics. 

The common thing in the security authorities of Russia is the paranoia against spies and agents. The roots for that paranoia is from the revolution. When the tsar's government collapsed the communists took control. And the Cheka, the secret police of the communists used the people of Okhrana the tsar's secret police in the same role, what they had in the time of the tsar. 

Some people of Cheka the secret police afraid that they were uncovered as the workers of "Okhrana" the political police of the tsar. The thing that the secret police used was forcing people to make accusations by using a very simple method. The operative of the secret police could see things themselves, and if the regular people saw something, and they didn't make the report, that made them "agents of capitalists". So that's why people are afraid of the secret police of Russia very much. 

The history, what makes Russians very skeptic or suspicious of Western culture is basing the history. During the tsar era, the highest noblemen of Russia spoke French with each other, and they were acting to the regular people, that they were nothing. 

And that attitude caused the revolution in Russia in 1917. The reason for the revolution was the extremely authoritarian government, which supported the feudal system, where only aristocrats had the right to get the officers rank, and the noble-background was the thing, that made them suitable for the higher rank places in government. 

Then after the revolution, the position turned upside down. And the positions in the government and the industry were reserved only to the real communists. The communist government classified the noblemen and tsars officers as the enemy of the people, and then they send those people to GULAG, the archipelago of prison camps. After that those people were planned to execute, that they would not "pollute the society. But the communists behave to those people like tsars authorities behaved to them. 

In the Russian civil war, the communists and especially the Bolsheviks told people that the western nations were interested only in the money or investments, what the western actors were carried out from Russia, and that means that the western people were capitalists who must be destroyed. Before the Second World War, the Soviet Union started the socialist crusade against western nations and that thing along with both side terror where communist secret police and "white immigrants", what was the name of the people, who fought against communists were assassinated each other. And of course, the secret police claimed that Russian immigrants worked under the command of western nations. 

What is the reason why the Russian government is so authoritarian? The reason for that is the large size of the country. Tsar could send people to Siberia far away from Moscow, and nobody knew that they even existed. Same way Stalin created his prison camps to far away from the seat of government. The large size of Russia allowed that the expulsions could be done internally and the censorship made the rest. The news and articles about the Prison camps removed from the newspapers, and the reason was that they were "anti-state propaganda". 

Sources: 

Cheka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka

FSB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service

GULAG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

Okhrana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhrana

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Why secret- or political police is so powerful in Russia?

The problem was the men who guarded the prison camps because they were under the influence of the "anti proletarian propaganda". And that made them untrusted. For the defense of Stalin, we can say that he didn't invent those camps. Stalin just transfers the tsar's model to handle political resistance to his government. Here I must say that some people who worked in the tsar's secret police "Okhrana" continued their work at Cheka, GPU, and NKVD. So the communist government needed the expertise of those men, who might rise in the high ranks in the communist's secret police. 

And the power of "Okhrana" and the agents of that organization was that they had the stamps and other things, which used to identify the papers as they were official documents of the secret police. So they could write fake documents, that every single person in the state could be an informer of the Tsar, and maybe some executions caused by that kind of faked documents, what were found from the archives. The thing is that the power of the FSB is similar. They can create documents, that the "uncomfortable person" is the provocateur of the FSB. 

So this is the background of the situation in modern Russia. When China and then Russia turned to the "socialists marketing economy", which means that the government is working under the one party, caused that the ideological coulisses were collapsed. The idea of communism and socialism is that the state owns the factories, but when the state turned to the marketing economical model, but the control is still in the hands of one party means that the result was pure antidemocracy. 

Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka