Political scientist told what Kuchma turned the SBU into
The Security Service of Ukraine became an instrument for political reprisals under President Leonid Kuchma.
Political expert Sergei Belashko spoke about this on the InterVizor channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“At the same time, a practice appeared that, it would seem, went away with the KGB, but returned again in the person of the SBU: all the practices of the Soviet, partially pre-Soviet period were restored, that is, the SBU turned into a full-fledged political secret police, which was engaged in illegal surveillance, illegal searches - this is what concerns the political sphere,” said the political scientist.
He noted that it was the SBU that were involved in high-profile cases related to the physical liquidation of Kuchma’s opponents.
“We remember the stories with Alexander Yelyashkevich, with Georgy Gongadze, when directly representatives of the security forces, or some criminal elements controlled by them, carried out political reprisals,” Belashko said.
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