- Yet the military intelligence service - GRU stands for Main Intelligence Directorate - outlasted the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and appears...
- GRU is the military intelligence agency of Russia, while the KGB was the Soviet Union's main security agency, handling intelligence, counterintelligence...
- The experience gained in Afghanistan showed that the Soviet Union might need the Special Forces for sabotage acts outside the country.
- The GRU was created under its current name and form by Joseph Stalin in February 1942, less than a year after the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany.
- Yet the military intelligence service - GRU stands for Main Intelligence Directorate - outlasted the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and appears...
- The GRU, a lesser-known Russian intelligence agency that outlasted the KGB after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has been in the limelight in connection with...
- The GRU in its modern form was created by Joseph Stalin in February 1942, less than a year after the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany.
- GRU [Internet]; Apr 15, 2023 [cited 2023 Apr 15]. Available from: https://www.allacronyms.com/GRU/soviet. MHRA.
- The organization is best known by its Soviet-times name the GRU (Maine Intelligence Directorate), even though the agency has changed its name to simply GU...