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In 1917, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, succeeded in seizing Tsarist power, and the October Revolution in Russia was officially declared victorious. Lenin then proposed that Dzerzhinsky establish the KGB in order to stabilize the political situation.
In this way, the KGB, the main espionage and counterintelligence organization of the Soviet Union, was born, and later played a significant role in the seizure of the Red regime, and was able to constantly deal with the US intelligence services during the Cold War.
(Lenin)
However, what many people don't know is that the KGB organization also opened a special spy school, and these schools trained those feared KGB female spies - "Swallow" beauties.
We can't help but wonder why the KGB created a school specifically to train female spies. How do these schools train female spies and turn them into "sharp weapons"?
(KGB logo)
1. Female spies: a weapon for obtaining intelligence
Before we get into that, let's take a look at the great contribution of the famous female spy, Konekova, to espionage and intelligence, so as to understand why the Soviet Union opened a spy school to train female spies.
Konekova, codenamed "Lucas" in the KGB at the time, went to the United States with her husband in 1924 and settled in the United States, all on the instructions of her superiors, and the mission goal was to obtain the secret of the American atomic bomb.
After several years of incursion, Konekova came to Einstein's studio as an assistant and her husband as a sculptor to work on the statues. After some "seduction", Einstein's heart has been captured unconsciously.
(Female spy Konekova)
With Einstein's connections, Konekova successfully blended into the small circle of senior scholars at American universities, and learned a lot about the process and plan of the United States to develop the atomic bomb.
After that, Konekova was ordered to return home, and Einstein did not find out the clue, but wrote several love letters to his sweetheart, Konekova, expressing his love from the bottom of his heart.
Konekova took this opportunity to communicate with Einstein continuously, and a large number of cutting-edge technology materials on missiles and nuclear weapons in the United States were constantly exposed in the "love affair" between the two.
(Albert Einstein)
It was not until the 80s of the 20th century that the US Intelligence Agency discovered this mega espionage case, and Konekova became famous all over the world. Of course, Konekova is an exception, most of the female KGB spies are unknown, but they have a common code name - "Swallow"
At that time, when the Soviet Union eavesdropped on a spy activity at the U.S. Embassy in the United Nations, they would release a large number of "swallows", and they would be transformed into ballet dancers at the National Center for the Performing Arts, and would use their beauty to obtain important information for the country.
("Swallow")
Of course, their talents are not innate, but obtained through cruel trials.
Second, the refining of "swallows": interview
In the midst of a brutal trial, the interview is a very painful part. When recruiting female spies, the KGB spy agency has always made a big splash in advertising, saying that it mainly recruits beautiful women who are witty and flexible and willing to make sacrifices.
Among them, women who have volunteered to join the espionage career need to go through a variety of checks, and once there are no problems, unexpected tests will follow, so as to test the intelligence, seductive ability and personal thinking of these interviewees.
(KGB Headquarters)
After that, the interviewer will be subjected to a "willpower test", in which the examiner will suddenly arrest the candidate from his home and send him to a dark basement, where he or she will be subjected to a strong and dazzling reflective light, and will begin to interrogate and intimidate him or her until the examiner agrees that he or she has passed.
After passing the willpower test, they are tentatively qualified. Over the next year, they will begin to learn how to stalk, monitor, and be followed from time to time, learning how to counter-stalk. Of course, it is also necessary to establish safe joint points, transfer joint points, disguise, cipher telegram and other espionage training.
(Basement)
After one year of formal training, the examiner will test the ability and intelligence of each female spy again, and then select young and beautiful female spies with stable personalities to go to the Soviet spy school for professional training.
3. Entering the school: professional training
After entering this spy school, they will be completely transformed, their names, addresses, family and other information will be erased, and they will have a new identity - "Swallow".
After that, they will begin to receive school education, that is, they will be asked to write an experience on the theme of dedicating themselves to the country and sacrificing everything, talking about why they are dedicated to the country.
(Watch Movie)
After the completion of the education, the female cadet will be faced with the question: what will you do if one day the motherland needs you to sacrifice your body to complete the task?
After receiving the correct answers from the female trainees, they begin special training – stripping naked and observing each other. If, during this process, someone expresses shyness and his face turns red, the instructor will reprimand and criticize the female student and let the female student be punished accordingly.
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These trainings are essentially aimed at reducing the embarrassment and fear of the academy, and basically these female cadets have had relationships with the officers and soldiers they admire in their hearts, or at the party organized by the school before class.
Finally, it's time for the final exam. The content of these swallows' exams is to seduce men and old men, and if they succeed, the swallows will successfully graduate.
The graduation exam is designed to allow female spies to perform "beauty tricks" to wrest valuable information from a variety of different men.
(Female spy on a mission)
It is normal for people to like beautiful women and handsome men, and it is precisely because of this that female spies are becoming more and more important, and the Soviet Union will have schools dedicated to training female spies.
However, the refining of the female spies "Swallow" in these schools is undoubtedly shocking, under this refining, they are tortured physically and mentally until they completely lose their human ethics, and finally become "killers" who can carry out their tasks desperately and have no feelings.
Resources:
SUN Lihua. Contemporary Military Digest, 2006(4):2.