Inside the KGB Spy Museum. All photos in this post are courtesy of the KGB Spy Museum
February 25, 2019
Thousands of Soviet espionage artifacts on view at Chelsea’s new KGB Museum
After entering the new KGB Spy Museum on 14th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues on a recent afternoon, a young Russian man wearing all black said, "Do you know who that is?" Pointing to a stoic portrait of Vladimir Lenin on the wall, he added, "He is like a God to the Soviet people." The Soviet Era is the stock-in-trade of New York's new KGB Spy Museum, which houses a staggering collection of never-before-seen Soviet espionage artifacts used by the KGB, Soviet Russia's spy organization or "State Security Committee," once known as "the sword and shield of the Communist Party."
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