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The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for The Third World, Vol. 2 Hardcover – September 20, 2005

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In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained a secret until the publication of The Sword and the Shield in 1999. That man was Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB's most senior archivist. Unknown to his superiors, Mitrokhin had spent over a decade making notes and transcripts of highly classified files which, at enormous personal risk, he smuggled out of the KGB archives. The FBI described the archive as "the greatest single cache of intelligence every received by the West." In The Sword and the Shield , Christopher Andrew revealed the secrets of the KGB's operations in the United States and Europe; now in The World Was Going Our Way , he has written the first comprehensive account of the KGB and its operations throughout the Third World. Our understanding of the contemporary world remains incomplete without taking into account the vast impact of the KGB in developing nations: Andrew reveals the names of political leaders on the KGB payroll as well as the KGB's successful penetration of numerous foreign governments. He also points to the many absurdities of KGB operations-such as agents attempting to assess the spread of influence of rival Chinese communism by visiting African capitals and counting the number of posters of Mao Tse Tung. For decades the KGB believed that the world was going their way-and Americans at the highest reaches of government lived in fear that they were losing the Cold War in the Third World. This extraordinary book will transform our understanding of the history of the twentieth century.
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  • Dennis E. Donham
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great buy on a book.
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  • Jeffrey J. Ward
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Finest Account of Soviet Activities in the Third World
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    My first recommendation to readers is to watch the superb Youtube video presentation at the International Spy Museum by Christopher Andrew in 2005 when this book was published. This is the best introduction. This is part of the Mitrokhin series and Vasili Mitrokhin should be credited as a co-author as is done on the title page. The book is dedicated to the late Mitrokhin and his late wife. Mitrohkin was the archivist of the KGB secret files and risked his life and probably that of his wife in smuggling his extensive notes out of Moscow to the newly free Baltic states. The first book in the series "The Sword and the Shield" published in 1999 should be read first and covers the entire history of Soviet intelligence. This book focuses on Soviet activities in the third world and will be of special interest to present and former residents of third world countries and scholars of modern third world history. I am passing this book on to a colleague born in Pakistan who will have a hard time putting down the parts describing KGB activities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. In this series, Cambridge historian Christopher Andrew points out that many previous works that claim to be based upon the release of previously secret KGB were actually accounts that were hand fed to authors by the current Russian Intelligence Service and are sanitized versions of KGB history. This is the real unsanitized history and is probably the most complete picture of any intelligence agency the world will ever see. It is must reading for anyone wanting to understand the cold war, the era of decolonization and the failure of the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan had it exactly right--this was indeed the "Evil Empire."
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  • Vibrolux45
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great History Of Communist Spying In America
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2013
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    This book is a miracle in that the Russian who smuggled the KGB documents out of the Soviet Union risked his life for it to be made public! Read about the Soviets unrelenting mission to steal America's secrets and marvel at the stupidity of American Liberals as they defended the Soviet Republic and actually helped the Spy's in many many case's...Also know that the American Communist Party was a willing participant in the mission of the various incarnations of the Soviet Unions spying.
    It is not easy reading but it is rewarding in that actual events that you have never heard about or even knew about were true even top Roosevelt Aids were in fact working for the Soviets.
    Learn about the many " illegals " the term used for Soviet Spys in the country illegally since the 1920's actively stealing secrets and converting Americans to use in there evil plans.Do not plan on learning about this in our schools,universities or in our media as it tells a story that is very damaging to those who deny the history of the Liberal Socialist ideal. It is eye opening reading and you will be stunned how easy it was for the Communists to there worst .
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  • BernardZ
    4.0 out of 5 stars Ultimately the failure of communism was its economy.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2008
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    It is a well written study of how the KGB tried to manipulate and fight the cold war in the third world.

    I was a bit disappointed though after reading at the start how this new and great archive was now available. Yet little of it is presented here. Overall there seemed little radically new in the book although there are some new and interesting points.

    For example in South Africa, I never realized how much the USSR and South Africa must have traded during the apartheid era in diamonds.

    The writers argument which I think is correct is that the KGB was one of the major means used by the Soviets to spread communism throughout the world. Often they were more inventive and clever then their enemies. Unfortunately for the USSR, either the form of communism that took shape in these third world countries produced a rival for example China or they became a major drain on the Soviet economy. Often they were played by the locals just like the US.

    At the end of the Cold War, in the third world as in many other fields the Soviet's economy could not afford the price.
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  • H. Williams
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent :better than prequel
    Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2010
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    This book is even better than the first one (in my own opinion).For years,we were told that the front lines of the cold war were in Europe with the third world serving as a battlefield where the superpowers can fight proxy wars.Before this book came out we were very familiar with the CIA's role in Iran,Guatemala,Guyana,indonesia,Chile and other places using dirty tricks and covert operations to promote american interests.This book details the KGB 's equivalent operations.We learn that the KGB sponsored a "Hostile takeover " of india;that it was in close contact with Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro and that it was the main support for the ANC during the apartheid struggle.The book shows that although the KGB had numerous tactical successes ,in the long run this could not help the Soviet system as communism was a flawed ideology and doomed anyway.
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  • James J. Bjaloncik
    5.0 out of 5 stars Mitrokhin Files Continued
    Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2013
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    In the same vein as their earlier book, "The Sword and The Shield", premier espionage historian Christopher Andrew and ex-KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin use Mitrokhin's vast stash of information culled from the KGB itself to shine a harsh but illuminating light on the activities of the USSR and its intelligence operations. These two books, along with Romerstein and Beindel's "The Venona Files", superbly document these activities. All three are definitely "must haves" for anyone interested in this part of the Cold War and the lead-up to it.
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  • Avid Reader
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting cold war book
    Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2013
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    Excellent book if you are interested in the cold war. Particularly from the perspective of the Soviet KGB. Hearing the unfilitered facts of thier operations was very interesting for one who lived through this period. Not a book that was a real page turner but one where you would read and go "never knew that".
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  • Karim Ghazi Wakili
    4.0 out of 5 stars The overestimated role of the KGB in the 3rd world.
    Reviewed in Germany on May 12, 2022
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    A revelation for all those who over estimated the role of the KGB in diffrent political developments, upheavels and change of adherences most specially in the middle east.
    The documents show that the KGB was not able to fill in the space left empty by American stupidity and stubbernness to keep atatus quo at every price unable to grasp new tendencies.
    It is also a set back for conspirationalists who always assume a hand behind the hands or a mastermind à la 007!
    The situation has certainly changed in the 21st century. But many perceptions of the abilities of espionage have unfortunately remained unchanged. A brightening light is also shed on the similarity of autocratic leaders in the 3rd world which left me baffeled.
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  • Stefan
    5.0 out of 5 stars worthwhile read
    Reviewed in Canada on October 25, 2019
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    very interesting book on the history of KGB involvements in the unaligned countries during the cold war. unfortunately much of the mitrokhin archive is still classified so the information is limited but a decent summary of their experience (as far as you can trust a summary from the archivist of the british mi5/mi6 on the KGB)
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  • Ishani
    5.0 out of 5 stars The world really is a theater with a high voltage drama being played ...
    Reviewed in India on August 18, 2020
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    Well, fancy covert operations, forged documents, poisoning ears etc. were all very movie like to me. And then I read this book !

    What is written is very difficult to believe and yet you know that all these are true. It is unfathomable to see the extent to which a country could go and did go for its expansion of ideology and for it's eternal belief on a single policy. Everyone should read this book to understand that most of the 1st & 2nd world countries are in one way or the other related to the catastrophes happening around in this era. The blame can't ever go to only CIA or KGB.

    All the more alarming was how such a vast and diverse country in India was infiltrated so much and so easily, promoting it to be the biggest base of operations for KGB during Cold War. How we were completely played by KGB and how the leaders, ministers, intelligence officers and even the leader of the nation were absolutely none but mere puppets.

    In short, nations were risked, citizens were betrayed, news medias were bought and madness ruled, as much in India as in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

    Would have rated it 5 but for the code names in the book.
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  • Krutik
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference book for history in the lense of Russia then USSR
    Reviewed in India on April 17, 2024
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  • siddhartha
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
    Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2016
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    Awesome book..! Its like reading brhind-the-scenes of history..!!
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