This is an original Russian T-shirt. Screen printed in Moscow, Russia. Manufactured of 5.1 oz. fabric - luxuriously soft 100% cotton ring-spun yarn with double-needle coverseamed neck.

Everyone knows what "KGB" was. The three-letter name of this security agency does not need translations. The front print of the T-shirt displays the emblem of the Soviet Committee for State Security, saying KGB, USSR on top of it. The back of the T-shirt has a famous Soviet poster "Ne boltai" (Don't chatter) on it. The poster was painted by N. Denisov in 1941, in the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, when the motto of the poster (found in its upper right corner) was often found true: "Be on the alert. In such days even walls have ears. The way is short from chatter and gossip to treason."

KGB

The KGB, short for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), was the name of the main Soviet Security Agency and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. The KGB's domain was roughly comparable to that of the American Central Intelligence Agency combined with the counterintelligence and internal security divisions of the FBI.

In March of 1953, Lavrenty Beria united the MVD and MGB into one body, the MVD. Within a year, Beria was executed and the MVD was split up. The reformed MVD retained its internal security(police and law enforcement) functions while the new KGB took on internal and external security functions. The KGB was subordinated to the Council of Ministers. On July 5, 1978 the KGB was renamed the "KGB of the USSR" with the KGB Chairman given a seat on the council.

The KGB was dissolved due to the participation of its chief, Colonel General Vladimir Kryuchkov, in the August 1991 coup attempt designed to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. He used many of the KGB's resources to aid the coup attempt. Kryuchkov was arrested, and General Vadim Bakatin was appointed Chairman on August 23, 1991 with a mandate to dismantle the KGB. On November 6, 1991 the Russian KGB officially ceased to exist, though its successor organization, the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, or FSB, is functionally extremely similar to the KGB. Belarus is the only post-Soviet society where the successor organization continues to be called the KGB. Belarus is also where one of the founders of the KGB, Felix Dzerzhinsky??"who was born in a town now within Belarusian territory??"remains a national hero.

Some members of the KGB referred to it as "The committee" while other employees called it the Kontora Grubykh Banditov, that is, the "association of crude bandits."

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