CIA vs KGB - Which Was Better During the Cold War?

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    Who was better at spying during the Cold War? Was it the CIA or was it the KGB? Which agency was better at its job? In today's animated video, we're taking a look at how did the two agencies compare!
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  • @TheInfographicsShow
    @TheInfographicsShow  4 роки тому +697

    Also check out this comparison between FBI and CIA: ua-cam.com/video/vebNxWGotC8/v-deo.html

    • @paulogodoy792
      @paulogodoy792 4 роки тому +6

      Pô coloquem legenda em português 🇧🇷

    • @Dd3vil
      @Dd3vil 4 роки тому

      First English comment

    • @RedXBeasts
      @RedXBeasts 4 роки тому +3

      I love the infographics show

    • @tuanvandersluis4433
      @tuanvandersluis4433 4 роки тому +1

      for English specking people. the KGB mean?

    • @kodingkrusader2765
      @kodingkrusader2765 4 роки тому +1

      Our government has been infiltrated by communists. We lost

  • @dalek9554
    @dalek9554 4 роки тому +8564

    CIA: Make people wonder why you’ve disappeared
    KGB: makes people forget you ever existed

    • @dr.elijah7742
      @dr.elijah7742 4 роки тому +465

      UA-cam star exist:
      KGB: I want him gone!
      Also KGB: *Kills the UA-cam star whilst putting a new actor on it and saying the star wanted a break from the internet for a few years*
      Cia: Just put a bullet on it

    • @okemtm
      @okemtm 4 роки тому +42

      @Liberty Prime they don't just do, they without anyone knowing it

    • @SaiyanDemon
      @SaiyanDemon 4 роки тому +8

      Dalek Metaphorical accuracy not needed YOU SIR SHOULD BE MY HISTORY (SIMPLIFIED) TEACHER 😂

    • @rtbeast7428
      @rtbeast7428 4 роки тому +11

      Kgb always watching you with stealthy-

    • @Samsenggalaci
      @Samsenggalaci 3 роки тому +4

      That's was a point

  • @johnwayde7034
    @johnwayde7034 4 роки тому +5215

    the best agency was and still is the penguins of madagascar
    edit: thanks for the likes, and thanks to Bouya for pointing out my misspelling of madagascar (now retconned)

    • @alejandrodecesare5929
      @alejandrodecesare5929 4 роки тому +109

      And the coolest

    • @autokid311
      @autokid311 4 роки тому +83

      John Wayde they stopped racism

    • @danielreece3996
      @danielreece3996 4 роки тому +140

      "we can buy a solid gold plane"
      "But sir a solid gold plane wouldn't be capable of flight"
      "We'll be rich Cawalsky, the rules of physics won't apply to us"

    • @liquidzbite9922
      @liquidzbite9922 4 роки тому +3

      Lol ISI is top

    • @prateekrajput7455
      @prateekrajput7455 4 роки тому +6

      @@liquidzbite9922 sapne me

  • @Tookan69
    @Tookan69 3 роки тому +1633

    Fun fact, the amount of KGB agents that were actually in the U.S was very surprising (your professor or even the quiet kid at the back of the class could be a KGB agent).

    • @rahadityap2375
      @rahadityap2375 2 роки тому +20

      Are you watch Yuri Bezmenov lecture or 4 stage toward marxism-leninism, Its suprisingly KGB used education tactic to demoralized student to created
      destabilized period including activism and Social Justice Warrior. First KGB only sent professor,teacher that from soviet and KGB to america college
      not lecture about basic subject but either social construct,Gender studies and Marxism, After that it done from people to people until it broke
      crisis which civil war between marxism-leninism faction and the nationalist once and after the crisis over that won by marxism-leninism,
      the Soviet Union and KGB designated a Marxism-leninism party that infact not by its people alone but by Soviet Spy that eventually led to country
      became communist state and those marxism and leninism supporter or people will be crushed by the New Marxist Goverment alone,
      This actually happen in Afghanistan & Czechoslovakia

    • @nicolagabriel8520
      @nicolagabriel8520 2 роки тому +222

      Or the pigeon in the park that you're feeding crumbles

    • @luthfidzikramoersidin2665
      @luthfidzikramoersidin2665 2 роки тому +18

      @@nicolagabriel8520lmoo

    • @mbm6048
      @mbm6048 2 роки тому +18

      Ever read the novel series Cherub Agents

    • @karinhansen3690
      @karinhansen3690 2 роки тому +8

      Your*
      How did you mess that up

  • @currentking1158
    @currentking1158 4 роки тому +5391

    Ofcourse kgb. One of the agents became a president.

  • @sarpbakrsoy8125
    @sarpbakrsoy8125 4 роки тому +3754

    0:28 "Great spy agencies"
    Fidel Castro: *Laughs in surviving 638 assasination attemps by the CIA*

    • @bunyaminesen241
      @bunyaminesen241 4 роки тому +36

      XD

    • @oxide8696
      @oxide8696 4 роки тому +188

      @happy mass shooting usa Until you're on their list.

    • @omarkhan5223
      @omarkhan5223 4 роки тому +292

      Tito of Yugoslavia survived every assassination attempt from the Soviet Union as well.

    • @shady1237
      @shady1237 4 роки тому +80

      @@omarkhan5223 its theorized that Tito somehow killed stalin via an assassin.

    • @omarkhan5223
      @omarkhan5223 4 роки тому +27

      ​@@shady1237 You sure, because I heard Stalin died of atherosclerosis.

  • @MashZ
    @MashZ 4 роки тому +3571

    KGB: we know about manhattan project
    FBI: wait what's that?

    • @agneyaverma598
      @agneyaverma598 4 роки тому +24

      😆😆😆

    • @divyeshpatel147
      @divyeshpatel147 4 роки тому +16

      😀😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

    • @Sierrawavemp4
      @Sierrawavemp4 3 роки тому +151

      CIA: we know about 1991
      KGB: wait whats that

    • @erikeriks
      @erikeriks 3 роки тому +352

      @@Sierrawavemp4
      CIA: we know about 1991
      KGB: wait what's that? Is it like 2032?
      CIA: wait what's that

    • @Eagerston
      @Eagerston 3 роки тому +40

      KGBs in soviet schools: * graduates *
      mom: * puts to KGA *
      them: "no"
      dad: * middle school skip *
      them: "no"
      Stalin: * hires them to NKVD *
      them: *"yes"*

  • @hiimbilly6695
    @hiimbilly6695 3 роки тому +439

    Evryone is gangsta until the guy in the back whisper the word
    "code name:perseus"

    • @STeaLTHCie
      @STeaLTHCie 3 роки тому +7

      @@jaydenmcintyre9278 well this isn’t a Cold War reference. They got inspired by a rumour

    • @hhhcirA
      @hhhcirA 3 роки тому +6

      @@STeaLTHCie w h a t

    • @STeaLTHCie
      @STeaLTHCie 3 роки тому +12

      @@hhhcirA there is/was a rumour about a soviet spy code name Perseus who infiltrated the Manhattan project and government

    • @GucciChicken1234
      @GucciChicken1234 3 роки тому +10

      “You really trusted me,Typical Americans”

    • @tersegull8435
      @tersegull8435 3 роки тому +2

      We’ve got a job to do.

  • @alexcc8664
    @alexcc8664 4 роки тому +430

    My grandad was in the RAF and was stationed on the Berlin Wall.... Well under it in 1960, in a listening post intercepting soviet messages and sending it all back to the HQ. After the collapse he found out the kgb built one right next to his and sent him fake messages and managed to figure out what the HQ was up to and eventually got an agent into it.

  • @AI-uj8ff
    @AI-uj8ff 4 роки тому +7078

    The best Intelligence agencies are the ones we don't hear/know about.

    • @SirColonelVonBurger
      @SirColonelVonBurger 4 роки тому +367

      Well it begs the question of whether it's better to be unknown only to be eventually found out about or to hide in plain sight

    • @Kyle17206
      @Kyle17206 4 роки тому +584

      What if the CIA is just a cover for the real intelligence agency that no one actually knows about?

    • @shottskies
      @shottskies 4 роки тому +367

      @@Kyle17206 scary to think what secrets the us government may have

    • @imantampan6759
      @imantampan6759 4 роки тому +113

      Chinese intelligent

    • @johanlimanjaya7774
      @johanlimanjaya7774 4 роки тому +116

      china then? cause even their organization name is not known only referred as shanghai

  • @heartlessangel7
    @heartlessangel7 4 роки тому +1449

    CIA: We'll throw $$$ at it.
    KGB: Call Natasha. We'll honeypot him.

    • @iwantgoals1566
      @iwantgoals1566 4 роки тому +41

      heartlessangel7 Natash Romanov

    • @georgedasani
      @georgedasani 4 роки тому +20

      The comment winner right now

    • @Boobeinstein
      @Boobeinstein 3 роки тому +10

      *honeytrap

    • @epoustouflant
      @epoustouflant 3 роки тому +16

      The fact that the reason i knew about the kgb in the first place is because of nat-

    • @ciaagent4723
      @ciaagent4723 3 роки тому +2

      @S W A T calling roman

  • @ScrapComputer
    @ScrapComputer 2 роки тому +652

    Just imagine the KGB had the money the CIA would have been swimming in. It would have been no contest.

    • @EGK112-55
      @EGK112-55 2 роки тому +75

      Or imagine if soviet naval engineers had American funding

    • @georgemanole8171
      @georgemanole8171 2 роки тому +7

      True.

    • @AstroSully
      @AstroSully 2 роки тому +57

      The KGB’s training method and regime were far more brutal that of the CIA.

    • @aoeu256
      @aoeu256 Рік тому

      I'm confused why be pro-American or pro-Russian why not be pro-humanity. By giving both the US and Russia atom bombs those spy agencies prevented war. Also helping the mujahideen was a terrible idea, Afghanistan used to be a very progressive nation where women wore miniskirts now look what America has done to it...

    • @brianticas7671
      @brianticas7671 Рік тому

      @@AstroSully but yet they went ahead and fell off badly in the 90s right.

  • @shinomakichuppy8236
    @shinomakichuppy8236 3 роки тому +408

    CIA vs KGB
    Bell: Either of these side will win if they had me.

  • @segalman
    @segalman 4 роки тому +4219

    CIA is that one kid in class who study the hardest
    KGB is that one genius kid in class who appears never study at all

    • @DerDop
      @DerDop 4 роки тому +152

      on the long term hard work wins.

    • @gigachad-jh1dh
      @gigachad-jh1dh 4 роки тому +60

      *who appears*
      Wait someone knocking on the doo

    • @alejandrodecesare5929
      @alejandrodecesare5929 4 роки тому +63

      So genius they lost the cold war...

    • @giantWario
      @giantWario 4 роки тому +273

      @@alejandrodecesare5929 They lost due to the U.S.A. having much better economy, natural ressources and allies. Also the Chernobyl disaster pretty much bankrupted them. But as far as Intelligence goes, the KGB was always ten steps ahead of the CIA.

    • @vincetheavenger
      @vincetheavenger 4 роки тому +20

      @@DerDop Sorry, that's not true. I'm just letting you know because I respect the sentiment and wish it was true.

  • @exaid0556
    @exaid0556 4 роки тому +841

    Me: KGB? Oh, they're gone. Nothing to be worried about.
    Man behind my back with a gun: Come along, comrade.

    • @niklas8279
      @niklas8279 3 роки тому +23

      David Hill In Belarus, the KGB still exists with the same name!

    • @easternspy1739
      @easternspy1739 3 роки тому +4

      Laughts in FSB

    • @zwilder1
      @zwilder1 2 роки тому +1

      @@easternspy1739 whats FSB

    • @easternspy1739
      @easternspy1739 2 роки тому +2

      @@zwilder1the name of KGB, they renamed it after the colapse of USSR

    • @kgb1908
      @kgb1908 2 роки тому +1

      You survived, right comrade?

  • @abhijeetchatterjee7414
    @abhijeetchatterjee7414 4 роки тому +43

    Just the abbreviation KGB itself strikes a fear in hearts Just imagine what the full form can do

    • @bd_ares
      @bd_ares 2 роки тому +7

      Komitet Gosudarstvenoi Bezopasnosti = State Safety Comitee

  • @novemberalpha6023
    @novemberalpha6023 2 роки тому +256

    CIA Spy: I have been working as a spy for 25 years and married for 20 years, but even my wife doesn't know what I do.
    KGB Spy: My wife and I both have been working as spies for 25 years but I don't know what she does and she doesn't know what I do.
    MI6 Spy: I have been working as a spy for 25 years but even I don't know what I do.

    • @ohboi9578
      @ohboi9578 2 роки тому +9

      Cringe

    • @agilelynx2008
      @agilelynx2008 2 роки тому +15

      Odinary(desi) husband: My wife thinks I am a spy even though I do an odinary job.

    • @defblinders9585
      @defblinders9585 2 роки тому +1

      My mission and orders are so classified, even I don't know what they are.

    • @dhritimanbose9848
      @dhritimanbose9848 2 роки тому +5

      This is comradeship red salute KGB...

    • @novemberalpha6023
      @novemberalpha6023 2 роки тому +1

      @@dhritimanbose9848 Laal Selam Comrade ✊

  • @goodservant8493
    @goodservant8493 4 роки тому +631

    The stealing of the Atomic bomb is the ultimate slap :D

    • @kannan-sar1758
      @kannan-sar1758 4 роки тому +15

      Is that the tooth fairy🤣

    • @hafis4941
      @hafis4941 3 роки тому +2

      @@kannan-sar1758
      😆

    • @KaranSingh-bi8de
      @KaranSingh-bi8de 3 роки тому +4

      @@kannan-sar1758 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😜😁😁😁😁😁🧐😂😂😂🔥🔥⚱️⚰️⚰️⚰️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

    • @benjamins7229
      @benjamins7229 3 роки тому +6

      The dropping of the atomic bomb is the ultimate slap lol

    • @EnigmaEnginseer
      @EnigmaEnginseer 3 роки тому +1

      they didn’t even steal the bomb :p

  • @wronghouse9294
    @wronghouse9294 4 роки тому +931

    CIA know my location
    KGB know our location

    • @wobbly_bubbly1235
      @wobbly_bubbly1235 3 роки тому +8

      So they only know your location and nobody's location

    • @wobbly_bubbly1235
      @wobbly_bubbly1235 3 роки тому +3

      I am sain that CIA only knows Wrong House's location

    • @nasimulhaque726
      @nasimulhaque726 3 роки тому +8

      Your name suits the context

    • @mindfulnesssf5619
      @mindfulnesssf5619 2 роки тому +1

      But the CIA has technology to see everything else

    • @Hei-BK201
      @Hei-BK201 2 роки тому

      Well you're cj so you keep them cias out of yo locations

  • @IBHunter
    @IBHunter 3 роки тому +131

    Which one is better depends on the metrics used to measure them by. The KGB was able to surpass the CIA in many ways, but the damage done by the CIA was much more devastating relatively speaking. Ultimately the US economy was able to absorb the intelligence failures where where the USSR’s economy could not.

    • @ddvsgd9508
      @ddvsgd9508 2 роки тому +10

      That's more to do with the fact the US is the most robust economy there is.

    • @Gameferret16191
      @Gameferret16191 2 роки тому +5

      @@ddvsgd9508 for once it was a lot more free and let its people do capitalism so much easier and had better allies

    • @brianticas7671
      @brianticas7671 Рік тому

      Thats what i wrote earlier. Russia is very powerful but the reason why the usa has always surpassed it by a bit is because of $$$$$$. $$$ makes the world go round. So this is why usa will always beat russia by a bit and russia will come in 2nd.

  • @thesovietgamer5798
    @thesovietgamer5798 4 роки тому +47

    2:43
    Stalin, we have a new bomb
    I know truman

  • @sakar9688
    @sakar9688 4 роки тому +2151

    The name KGB itself is so legendary

    • @TheFenny
      @TheFenny 4 роки тому +138

      I know, right? That, and CIA both sound cool to me

    • @frostyblade1127
      @frostyblade1127 4 роки тому +6

      No it’s just confusing

    • @theslayerishereboi4738
      @theslayerishereboi4738 4 роки тому +86

      Or do u mean the Komitet Gosudartsvennoy Beznospasnoti

    • @drcommondrate12
      @drcommondrate12 4 роки тому +216

      KGB sounds more militaristic
      CIA sounds more futuristic
      Both are badass tho

    • @carterphillips9159
      @carterphillips9159 4 роки тому +28

      I wonder if they make cia jokes in russia?

  • @commandandconquer6491
    @commandandconquer6491 4 роки тому +2557

    The KGB is happy with this video your family shall live.

  • @kgb899
    @kgb899 3 роки тому +61

    Maybe we've perished, but our shadow is still there.

    • @davidrodriguez9612
      @davidrodriguez9612 2 роки тому

      KGB I respect you rip KGB one of the best it may perish but it’s shadows and members will continue until this universe has been destroyed

    • @marchino2829
      @marchino2829 2 роки тому +1

      Hey, i'm the real КГБ, you're a CIA spy!

  • @chris9242
    @chris9242 3 роки тому +40

    KGB had no limits to gathering information, so i’d say KGB

  • @shadowfortress5468
    @shadowfortress5468 4 роки тому +365

    "Rebellious colonists"
    I see that british still remember when their tea thrown away into ocean

    • @drops2cents260
      @drops2cents260 4 роки тому +37

      That's because if there is anything the English would _never_ forgive, it would be people making tea with saltwater...
      ...like some Bostonian rascals did in 1773. ;-)

    • @suecoates1502
      @suecoates1502 4 роки тому +5

      Im a brit i hate tea i prefer COFFEE

    • @generalkenobi5173
      @generalkenobi5173 4 роки тому +15

      @@suecoates1502 ur not british anymore in our eyes

    • @suecoates1502
      @suecoates1502 4 роки тому +1

      Why thank you general i dont even like the english royal family

    • @suecoates1502
      @suecoates1502 4 роки тому +1

      General you make myself laugh

  • @charles7778
    @charles7778 4 роки тому +195

    the bomb made by KGB was the blyat bomb, where if it's launched it would play a full track of DJblyatman's hardbass

    • @konstanZX2
      @konstanZX2 4 роки тому +21

      it played the soviet anthem earrape version

    • @yashsinghrathore9615
      @yashsinghrathore9615 3 роки тому +5

      Charles 777 here is your gopnik award comrade

    • @deathkorpstrooper8228
      @deathkorpstrooper8228 3 роки тому +5

      The results of that bomb are incredible. Upon destruction, the "Gopnik Waves" are unleashed into atmosphere. After 4 days of being exposed to those Waves, object starts to sing russian songs and know a Russian language. After 7 days object is now fully-armed soviet soldier, capable of dancing to hardbass.

  • @dba6097
    @dba6097 3 роки тому +301

    No one:
    Nobody:
    Adler: We got a job to do..

    • @muhammadafzalfaizi117
      @muhammadafzalfaizi117 3 роки тому +29

      "Keep it proffesional bell!"

    • @SkepticSoda
      @SkepticSoda 3 роки тому +17

      Loved the ending. Got to be a true comrade

    • @Masterjimmy15
      @Masterjimmy15 3 роки тому +11

      @@SkepticSoda how could you betray Adler

    • @cyr2097
      @cyr2097 3 роки тому +7

      @Charles Duggan The betrayel of bell does make sense considering he was one of the baddies beforehand.

    • @theoutdoorlabchannel4267
      @theoutdoorlabchannel4267 3 роки тому +2

      Bell: 😐

  • @raghavanpradeep2434
    @raghavanpradeep2434 2 роки тому +24

    Love how he nailed the KGB's full form. Best spy agency ever

  • @edumation3041
    @edumation3041 4 роки тому +876

    CIA used dashlane to store all the passwords.
    KGB: forget it. Let’s pack our bags 😂😂

  • @binaryzero6804
    @binaryzero6804 4 роки тому +685

    The KGB was far more effective when you get to many specific operational facts, the cost to information gathered was far greater for the KGB when compared to what the CIA would have to invest to gather equal data. The CCCP was also much harder to influence and infiltrate when paired to the US, they also had way more linguistic experts and because of its location they also had many ethnic experts in many areas where the US could only buy assets. They also had the same fear aspect that Mossad shares today. In fact the KGB was so influential in their nation they had to break it up into three departments after the cccp collapsed

    • @laetrille
      @laetrille 4 роки тому +6

      Their population suffered is the cost

    • @letsmakegadgets6899
      @letsmakegadgets6899 4 роки тому +19

      @@laetrille the ussr was only in a slum during the 30s, 40s and the 90's

    • @_gamepoint_
      @_gamepoint_ 4 роки тому +6

      From my understanding we had better espionage tech at the time.

    • @guydreamr
      @guydreamr 3 роки тому +1

      Cogent comment, thanks. What are your sources for this information? Would like to read them as well, sounds like I could learn a lot.

    • @kishanchali8752
      @kishanchali8752 2 роки тому +1

      @@letsmakegadgets6899 There was no USSR in the 90s btw there are over 500,000 homeless in the US 😂

  • @vozz4826
    @vozz4826 2 роки тому +132

    The fact that only about 10% of information actually escapes the CIA is scary. We dont know 90% of the things they're doing

    • @Sgt_ioiwsl
      @Sgt_ioiwsl 2 роки тому +19

      I wonder what the KGB is-
      ЭТОТ АККАУНТ БЫЛ УДАЛЕН ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВОМ РОССИИ ДОБРЫЙ ДЕНЬ ТОВАРИЩ!

    • @MikeYm98875
      @MikeYm98875 8 місяців тому

      Eating donuts

  • @egorluk6488
    @egorluk6488 4 роки тому +41

    Fun fact: KGB wasn't renamed in Belarus and it's still a thing there

    • @namoa8202
      @namoa8202 2 роки тому +4

      You know what’s not still here? The Soviet Union

  • @kimilsung9855
    @kimilsung9855 4 роки тому +611

    Which agency was the greatest you say? Well obviously the DPRK's secret service! We know the whereabouts of all our citizens.

    • @oliver1892
      @oliver1892 4 роки тому +38

      Almost all, need more landmines to keep them in/happy

    • @helregal7716
      @helregal7716 4 роки тому +8

      Kim Il Sung you kinda look like a snack

    • @tiffanydelgado8519
      @tiffanydelgado8519 4 роки тому +4

      N. Koreas "all mighty leader" on an app that alot of diplomatic people are on and same with their sworn enemies? Round of applause for no N korean jokes on this. Like the words of alucard: progress. 😆

    • @user-hg9vr7gh2q
      @user-hg9vr7gh2q 4 роки тому +5

      I will reestablish the soviet union

    • @sadmanpranto9026
      @sadmanpranto9026 4 роки тому +6

      @@tiffanydelgado8519 there's no such thing called N. Korea.
      It's called Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  • @emirbenaissa3441
    @emirbenaissa3441 4 роки тому +244

    Imagine having an intelligence core so professional that they knew about the US. s nuclear program before the FBI did...

  • @gabrielmendoza2064
    @gabrielmendoza2064 3 роки тому +42

    8:25
    "advanced precision weapons"
    *every shot misses so badly it's out of frame*

    • @davidgregor8877
      @davidgregor8877 2 роки тому +2

      Also 8:15, soviet mujahideen 😂😂 didnt know they were soviet 😂😂😂

  • @karlostj4683
    @karlostj4683 3 роки тому +26

    The KGB was "formed" in 1954 - out of the previous versions which went back all the way to the formation of the Soviet Union. Lenin tapped his friend Feliks Dzierżyński, a Polish dissident who had been jailed by the Tsar many times for political reasons. Dzierżyński's mission: To root out, top to bottom, "counter-revolutionaries" that Lenin knew were hiding everywhere. He was given pretty much carte-blanche to do whatever he felt needed to be done to destroy the enemies of The People.

  • @Behindyamom
    @Behindyamom 4 роки тому +1014

    *Knock* *knock*
    Me : who’s there?
    KGB: KGB
    Me: KGB wh-o *gets slapped*
    KGB: WE VILL ASK THE QUESTIONS

    • @NoName-vz4wu
      @NoName-vz4wu 4 роки тому +6

      *will

    • @prashunadhikari8107
      @prashunadhikari8107 4 роки тому +42

      That's what she said.

    • @p4n4d4
      @p4n4d4 4 роки тому +36

      No Name r/whoosh

    • @The_InfantMalePollockFrancis
      @The_InfantMalePollockFrancis 4 роки тому +52

      @@p4n4d4 not woosh. Russians don't have difficulty pronouncing /w/
      This is a play on a Russian accent, but it is really a German accent.
      Woosh that.

    • @dominicmathis7504
      @dominicmathis7504 4 роки тому +15

      @@The_InfantMalePollockFrancis r/whoosh

  • @amacca2085
    @amacca2085 4 роки тому +526

    What if the KGB was the CIA but the CIA just didn’t know it 😂👍🏼

    • @zemo5218
      @zemo5218 4 роки тому +38

      That is just like hydra and sheild

    • @m02ee2
      @m02ee2 3 роки тому +10

      Then SpongeBob is Really... 😱😱😱 Squidward!!!

    • @tefnutfps8329
      @tefnutfps8329 3 роки тому +1

      Epic 🤣🤣🤣

    • @evergaming7960
      @evergaming7960 2 роки тому +7

      @@m02ee2 Still waiting for the funny

    • @CodgerGunslinger
      @CodgerGunslinger Рік тому

      @@evergaming7960 0_0

  • @isaiahthemack8892
    @isaiahthemack8892 3 роки тому +29

    4:07 that's that one mission from Black Ops the real ones know

  • @ignis_32
    @ignis_32 3 роки тому +18

    Actually, USSR had two intelligence agencies, KGB and GRU (the army based one), to evade having too much power in one hands that would be a threat to current leader.

  • @user-pm3wk6lw6m
    @user-pm3wk6lw6m 4 роки тому +29

    3:12 Imagine actually living in a house between KGB and CIA office buildings...

  • @L6Jeremy
    @L6Jeremy 4 роки тому +369

    Here before they fix the title from “doing” to “during”

    • @aztekwarrior8398
      @aztekwarrior8398 4 роки тому +3

      Kinda wish I saw that

    • @hmoobmeeka
      @hmoobmeeka 4 роки тому +59

      I'm here before you correct "tittle" to "title"

    • @roshkumar910
      @roshkumar910 4 роки тому +3

      hmoobmeeka lol

    • @foxtrotnine
      @foxtrotnine 4 роки тому +6

      Did you spell title wrong on purpose?

    • @ndpdatabank6107
      @ndpdatabank6107 4 роки тому +2

      Jeremy Jackson well I think the CIA and FBI best secret agency in world

  • @virescentmorsmordre9568
    @virescentmorsmordre9568 3 роки тому +37

    This is the first time that The Infographics show actually admitted that someone can be better at something that the USA. Is KGB really gone?

    • @nkosibless2253
      @nkosibless2253 3 роки тому +1

      They agreed yes at same time said its no more,if they managed to play with American elections in 2016 whilst the fbi and cia is still there think about

    • @Gameferret16191
      @Gameferret16191 2 роки тому +1

      @@nkosibless2253 they didn't do a thing in 2016

    • @tiktokfootball6190
      @tiktokfootball6190 Рік тому +3

      @@Gameferret16191 keep living in your delusion

    • @pixelcode6595
      @pixelcode6595 3 місяці тому

      In Belarus the KGB is still called the KGB

  • @ElderNewt
    @ElderNewt 3 роки тому +45

    CIA: well give you weapons to fight the Soviets.
    Afghan: sure, we promise not to use them against you or others
    CIA: what.

  • @sarpbakrsoy8125
    @sarpbakrsoy8125 4 роки тому +378

    0:34 Well, the CIA definitely wasn't! I mean, come on, the greatest spy agency in the world would've surely succesfully assasinated Fidel Castro in less than 638 tries!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @randomguy8647
      @randomguy8647 4 роки тому +2

      Lol

    • @nudle9186
      @nudle9186 4 роки тому +2

      lol

    • @chess74u
      @chess74u 4 роки тому +2

      Lol

    • @hemprope4326
      @hemprope4326 4 роки тому +65

      Meanwhile they got Kennedy in like 1 try

    • @jr8573
      @jr8573 3 роки тому +9

      They weren’t trying to get rid of him they wanted to weaken him. And it worked. We won like always. Teddy Roosevelt would be proud 💪🏼🇺🇸

  • @TheGreatMoonFrog
    @TheGreatMoonFrog 4 роки тому +112

    I used to meet government managers everyday. There was always this Russian IT manager who manages security for one department who would go on a cyber intelligence rant if prodded even slightly. It was kind of scary actually, to hear all the ways a Russian or Chinese (those seemed to be his biggest fears) hacker could shut down our credit systems, health records, power, and other things.

    • @07Blackbeard
      @07Blackbeard 2 роки тому +1

      How are those losers shutting down anything now? :D In fact, everyone, including Anonymous, are shutting THEM now, even hacking their state TV broadcasts.

    • @jensoncaners1302
      @jensoncaners1302 Рік тому

      Cap

  • @orevukosavljevic4448
    @orevukosavljevic4448 3 роки тому +227

    KGB still exists, it just changed it's name

    • @commisarmichael8097
      @commisarmichael8097 3 роки тому

      That's old technic of adaptation known back in Cheka

    • @borschtisgud
      @borschtisgud 3 роки тому +5

      I searched it up, yeah it still kind of exists.
      It has 2 parts of it still remaining: the FSB and the SVR. :P

    • @kgb1908
      @kgb1908 2 роки тому +5

      Comrade, don't explain...

    • @commisarmichael8097
      @commisarmichael8097 2 роки тому +1

      @@kgb1908 comrades, they know we know. It was good to know you all...

    • @nuvcrossbackit4361
      @nuvcrossbackit4361 2 роки тому +2

      ФСБ

  • @Rosmah_Mansor_Uwek
    @Rosmah_Mansor_Uwek 3 роки тому +5

    Adler VS Perseus??

  • @valerian4486
    @valerian4486 4 роки тому +167

    8:16 Did I hear correctly? The CIA was training soviet Mujaheddins? Wut?

    • @tjfush
      @tjfush 4 роки тому +21

      anti-soviet

    • @ArkadiBolschek
      @ArkadiBolschek 4 роки тому +35

      @@tjfush Nope, it clearly says "soviet", thought they must have meant "Afghan mujahideen".

    • @tjfush
      @tjfush 4 роки тому +1

      @@ArkadiBolschek you are right

    • @stephenhaval6769
      @stephenhaval6769 4 роки тому +1

      You are right mate

    • @stephenhaval6769
      @stephenhaval6769 4 роки тому +5

      I heard the same

  • @Matt-uk7zq
    @Matt-uk7zq 4 роки тому +192

    0:50 US walled off
    Alaska and Hawaii: Am I a joke to you?

    • @keithdean9149
      @keithdean9149 4 роки тому +4

      True but at they were not states at that time but US Territories.

    • @LarryL3g3nd
      @LarryL3g3nd 4 роки тому +2

      We need to build a wall around Hawaii

    • @awwhellfreewayy4537
      @awwhellfreewayy4537 4 роки тому +4

      @@keithdean9149 both territories became states in 1959 first Alaska in January then Hawaii in August during the cold war 1945-1990

    • @mykillak
      @mykillak 4 роки тому

      bein from da907 I say let tis state clame independent from u.s an...hawaii as well
      cas u forgot abut us

    • @vdotme
      @vdotme 4 роки тому

      @@mykillak noone should take advice from someone who can't put together a coherent sentence.

  • @kelliebrogan7212
    @kelliebrogan7212 3 роки тому +60

    Adler: “We’ve got a job to do.”

    • @chrome1018
      @chrome1018 2 роки тому +1

      Bell: "Sorry adler, i've got a job to do."

  • @hawksfan8870
    @hawksfan8870 3 роки тому +10

    After playing Cold War’s campaign, I definitely need to watch this video!

  • @FiddlinWithYourCerebellum
    @FiddlinWithYourCerebellum 4 роки тому +1584

    Americans: *train and arms terrorists to fight russia*
    Americans after 9/11: “well that backfired”
    😂

  • @infinityayan
    @infinityayan 3 роки тому +1

    superb video...best research and great presentation!!

  • @donnthomas8123
    @donnthomas8123 3 роки тому +6

    Book tip: deep under cover by Barksy. Its is biography on how he became and operated as a KGB spy

  • @billmurray9485
    @billmurray9485 4 роки тому +68

    When the Soviets first invaded Afghanistan they actually faced little meaningful resistance. The advanced weaponry came later.

    • @bigdarshan
      @bigdarshan 4 роки тому +6

      true....the mlvie Charies war depicts this clearly. The stingers came much later when the Soviet Hinds were doing much damage and were impervious to whatever the Muj had

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 2 роки тому

      Yeah, just watch _"Charlie Wilson's War"_ or even _"First Blood III"._

  • @uniball01
    @uniball01 4 роки тому +64

    I don't believe the cold war ever truly ended. The two aspects that defined the period were nuclear stockpiles and proxy wars. The nuclear stockpiles have decreased drastically, and it seems both sides are aware that it isn't a feasible option, but the proxy wars never stopped. The idea behind the proxy wars was to indirectly engage through supporting opposing sides in a conflict they often instigated in order to stop the other from spreading their influence. What's changed?

    • @ysammo214
      @ysammo214 Рік тому +2

      This comment aged beautifully

    • @Dummigame
      @Dummigame Рік тому

      it did end, and then restarted

  • @Joy3269
    @Joy3269 3 роки тому

    Very Nice & Informative video. All should watch & appreciate. Thank You.

  • @zacharybodnar739
    @zacharybodnar739 Рік тому +4

    More videos like this please! History is so cool!

  • @XDATU
    @XDATU 4 роки тому +28

    2:05 I'm impressed

  • @jakara3024
    @jakara3024 4 роки тому +161

    Do a video on the Italian mafia vs the triads
    Everyone like this do they can see

    • @AC11Milan
      @AC11Milan 4 роки тому +10

      Yakuza would be better, most successful crime organization financially. But I think they already did one like this

    • @mariot.5178
      @mariot.5178 4 роки тому +2

      noop, Italien was the more efectiv one,, then the rusian, then the mexicen.....

    • @mariot.5178
      @mariot.5178 4 роки тому +2

      @Mr Football noop, not true.
      It s not the same to be a mafia in the USA, Japan or like Mexico. And you must see in wich time did the mafia do ther jobs... it s not the same, it s not a esey answers, you must analis evreything the time, contry, goverment, sistem, money, dethe, money, a lot of factors.
      I agre thet the mexicens, columbiens are very known cartels, and have a lot money,, but we now how maney DAYS they would be in busines if they were located in the USA.
      + alot of ther narco boses have died...
      I say thet moust efectiv have been the italiens and russians, because they have legalized ther busines and are free, rich peopel now.... and the hispanic boses still watch ther back, maybe not because of other contry cartels, but in ther cartels iner enemys and other local cartels.... it s more esey to be mafia when the contrey is in mess.

    • @dmraven
      @dmraven 4 роки тому +3

      @@mariot.5178 learn to spell and write sentences correctly first man, lol.

  • @SirMcAwesome
    @SirMcAwesome 4 роки тому +47

    A dude on UA-cam is going to tell me which "secret" service agency was better like he's talking about 2 football clubs. Ok....

  • @jt19933
    @jt19933 2 роки тому +28

    The fact that the CIA was developed to be so good in such a short space of time is also impressive.

    • @nomahope3182
      @nomahope3182 Рік тому +7

      I think the British helped them a lot to reach that level of excellence fast.

    • @bsjddjk
      @bsjddjk Рік тому +3

      obviously money usa spended was also much more otherwise when it comes to effectiveness cia is nowhere in front of kgb

    • @totoitekelcha7628
      @totoitekelcha7628 Рік тому

      @@bsjddjk CIA is more effective thats why soviet union collapse. It is easier to I filtrate democracy countries than that of tightly control communist country. If US is closely control like soviet union then KGB would not even reach UD border.

  • @aarya2200
    @aarya2200 4 роки тому +10

    usually i would hate this but how smoothly u went from going to explaining the kgb to an advertisement i gotta give u credit that was slick

  • @user-jq5ss2uo5v
    @user-jq5ss2uo5v 4 роки тому +194

    USA: telling the world that they can nuke Russia at anytime if it came to war
    KGB: I’m about to end this guy’s hall career

    • @nwas2838
      @nwas2838 3 роки тому

      @Bouya the automatic keyboard

  • @nunufyurbiznis7671
    @nunufyurbiznis7671 2 роки тому +1

    I love how you managed your product placement reinforcement again in the end

  • @yaabishhh3109
    @yaabishhh3109 2 роки тому +8

    Only reason I looked up KGB was because of the show snowfall

    • @Official360
      @Official360 2 роки тому

      Yea, I didn't know exactly who the KGB was but after doing research Season 6 is gonna be amazing! On a whole other level! It's Franklin's possible way out.

  • @LoudRevised
    @LoudRevised 4 роки тому +151

    Klaus Fuchs: Steals Nuclear Designs
    CIA: *Confused Screaming*

    • @stevencarr7605
      @stevencarr7605 4 роки тому +6

      Loud Animations the CIA didn’t exist during the manhattan project

    • @MashZ
      @MashZ 4 роки тому +5

      FBI: what project?

    • @d1agram4
      @d1agram4 4 роки тому

      When will people stop this meme..

    • @kharkovluzhin8333
      @kharkovluzhin8333 4 роки тому

      Well the russian is the one who found the base of nuclear weapons btw

  • @rolanddonaldson271
    @rolanddonaldson271 4 роки тому +80

    My FBI agent watching me watch this like 😡

  • @preppydevildogable
    @preppydevildogable 3 роки тому +2

    Concerning the end of the video with the transition to your sponsor.....Well played sir… Well played.

  • @baleofhay763
    @baleofhay763 3 роки тому +121

    Black ops cold war anyone?

  • @epithet052
    @epithet052 4 роки тому +61

    American Government: "This is top secret information DO NOT reveal it to anyone!"
    Infographics Show employee: "Hey guys I just found a new topic for our next video"

  • @Lord_Shal
    @Lord_Shal 4 роки тому +4

    One of the few channels I ALWAYS click like on before even watching. Thanks for the vids.

  • @anashe1541
    @anashe1541 3 роки тому +9

    Gotta admit it, KGB uniforms were incredible

  • @TheAlienGangster
    @TheAlienGangster 2 роки тому +13

    I always find it uncanny when these animations use modern designs for things that occurred like 70 years ago

  • @Benjy52
    @Benjy52 4 роки тому +43

    Nothing ever beats the Killing Gloves of Boxi- I mean KGB

  • @evaristegalois6282
    @evaristegalois6282 4 роки тому +258

    When the title says "Doing" instead of "During"
    Edit: the title’s fixed now :)

    • @ammarif618
      @ammarif618 4 роки тому +7

      Do you think that you're highly intelligent or What?

    • @ExemptAndromeda
      @ExemptAndromeda 4 роки тому +11

      ilove thehate r/wooosh

    • @fuckyouxx
      @fuckyouxx 4 роки тому +9

      @@ammarif618 better than you :D

    • @simontjner2472
      @simontjner2472 4 роки тому

      This hurt me physically

    • @fishollyaoli6788
      @fishollyaoli6788 4 роки тому +5

      @@ammarif618 You can clearly hear the narrator say "during" and not "doing" at 0:38

  • @artemnoelgames
    @artemnoelgames Рік тому +6

    My grandma used to tell me stories of how feared the KGB was. If your neighbors overheard you talking down on the system and they snitched. Some time deep into the night a black car (nick named “the black crow”) would show up and take you away, and nobody ever knew where they took you!

  • @HrLBolle
    @HrLBolle 3 роки тому +2

    i found the most secure password manager:
    KGB we have known your current passwords 10 years ago

  • @Rodam96
    @Rodam96 4 роки тому +87

    No one doubts that the country with the best intelligence service was the Soviet Union with the KGB. And the country with the second best intelligence service was also the Soviet Union with the GRU.

    • @DZ-qj5br
      @DZ-qj5br Рік тому +1

      @Steve Berman one collapse while one is stockpiling debt😂

    • @IceKnight678
      @IceKnight678 Рік тому +1

      @steveberman654High inflation within the country and the loss of trust in the reserve currency

    • @IceKnight678
      @IceKnight678 Рік тому

      @steveberman654 You just repeat what you’ve said without reading what I said, congrats!

    • @IceKnight678
      @IceKnight678 Рік тому

      @steveberman654 Sure whatever you say. Just wait for the high inflation to really affect your life and you’ll be spending your time shooting down your own government.

  • @spidermovies30
    @spidermovies30 4 роки тому +20

    I like how we are talking about secret spy stuff from the cold war but every single one of the spies are always smiling friendly

  • @bhiei
    @bhiei 11 місяців тому

    Good video, learned quite a bit

  • @DoggLeash
    @DoggLeash 4 роки тому

    Wow, That's very informative

  • @boostergold20
    @boostergold20 4 роки тому +4

    I was waiting for the upload

    • @Sataka23clips
      @Sataka23clips 4 роки тому

      JustCall MeEarth let's be real KGB is the shizznizzlle

  • @stefdirkx
    @stefdirkx 4 роки тому +238

    “The CIA got it’s revenge”
    Train Afghan soldiers and support them with modern weaponary.
    ->
    Afghan soldiers form Al Qaida.
    Osama Bin Laden: Here I come boy!

    • @mykillak
      @mykillak 4 роки тому +5

      from wat I been told America train mujahadin
      russai train taliban
      alkada was formed from Iraq/iran

    • @hamzahussein809
      @hamzahussein809 4 роки тому +6

      Micheal Chythlook alkaada form by us government

    • @jadevillaceran5045
      @jadevillaceran5045 4 роки тому +7

      @@mykillak you have been brainwashed lol, youre using internet, start to search

    • @Kriegter
      @Kriegter 4 роки тому +2

      @@mykillak no, Taliban was a splinter group of Mujahideen who went rogue and overthrown the Mujahideen government after the war

    • @Sierrawavemp4
      @Sierrawavemp4 3 роки тому

      Seal Team Six: don't even try

  • @cejajuan2
    @cejajuan2 4 роки тому +20

    Imagine trying to killed someone 618 times but you failed. Yeah that's CIA

    • @namoa8202
      @namoa8202 2 роки тому +3

      The Soviet Union doesn’t exist anymore

  • @zeqi
    @zeqi 4 роки тому +1

    That ad transition is way too epic for this video

  • @copuis
    @copuis 4 роки тому +22

    i think that the KGB was better,
    why, simple, the CIA has "fixed" so many things that ended up drawing into conventional warfare (something they were trying to avoid, but fiddled and destabilised so much (in places and why not intended), also, much of the CIA's handy work directly backfired back onto the US, something that the KGB suffered far less of

    • @aoeu256
      @aoeu256 Рік тому +1

      The oligarchs in America get money from military & oil stocks though... Those same oligarchs also fund the elections and own the mainstream media (Fox News, CBS/CNN/NBC/MSNBC/ABC).

  • @thenorthernplayer5589
    @thenorthernplayer5589 4 роки тому +297

    I can say KGB even before I watch this video.

    • @micheypatsa
      @micheypatsa 4 роки тому +13

      Its the cia.

    • @angelaellerson
      @angelaellerson 4 роки тому +13

      @@micheypatsa dont worry he is being paid by Russia

    • @ignasplikynas7705
      @ignasplikynas7705 4 роки тому +36

      No KGB is better. Cuz i live in Lihuania and KGB were allways watching you no matter what you do they know ewhrything.

    • @sanketdeshmukh3658
      @sanketdeshmukh3658 4 роки тому +18

      KGB father of secrecy

    • @ignasplikynas7705
      @ignasplikynas7705 4 роки тому +9

      @@sanketdeshmukh3658 ah i see your a man of culture as well, hello comrade

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 2 роки тому

    Nicely informative video

  • @ambassadorpaintball6536
    @ambassadorpaintball6536 3 роки тому +9

    Hello, I love astronomy and I love your content. That being said, I would love to see a video about ROSCOSMOS and its comparison to NASA, am I asking for too much? Thank you. Play paintball, everyone!

  • @rai004
    @rai004 4 роки тому +65

    CIA Vs. KGB
    *MOSSAD* : Hold my coffee!

  • @salahudin2259
    @salahudin2259 4 роки тому +103

    FBI seeing this is like
    OK

    • @MidnaGamer64
      @MidnaGamer64 4 роки тому +2

      The FBI is law enforcement not intel based is it not?

    • @generalripper7528
      @generalripper7528 4 роки тому +7

      @@MidnaGamer64 The FBI is basically the domestic (i.e. solely focused on issues INSIDE the US) intelligence agency.

    • @MidnaGamer64
      @MidnaGamer64 4 роки тому

      That makes sense, thanks!

    • @generalripper7528
      @generalripper7528 4 роки тому +3

      @@MidnaGamer64 No probs! It's pretty interesting stuff. There's also the NSA (signals intelligence), DIA (Military Intelligence), NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) etc. etc..

  • @JustiXNL
    @JustiXNL 3 роки тому +6

    When you have watch The Dark Knight and know they were talking about the skyhook before it was specifically mentioned :D

  • @PkTaco
    @PkTaco 2 роки тому

    That Dashlane transition was smoooth

  • @redafilali2914
    @redafilali2914 4 роки тому +75

    All of that thanks to Alex Mason and Frank Woods ❤❤❤

  • @MrDirtytricksss
    @MrDirtytricksss 4 роки тому +8

    The KGB, translated in English as Committee for State Security,

  • @charlesandrecuadra8569
    @charlesandrecuadra8569 4 роки тому +8

    We all know that Johnny English will eat these agents alive.

  • @collarmole1819
    @collarmole1819 3 роки тому

    Love the thumbnail!