Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Okhrana was an organisation of tsar times so maybe it does not qualify as a forerunner of the NKVD/MGB/KGB - or maybe it does, the current one is FSB. All the best! Raimo K personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho/ Quoting Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net>: <snip> Okhrana (the predecessor to the NKVD which Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinzki, for whom the FED camera is named... the NKVD in turn leading to the KGB and the present agency whose initialism <snip> > > Marc > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 > >