The totalitarian regime that prevailed in the Soviet Union and in the occupied Lithuania that was part of it exercised constant control over its citizens. This work was diligently carried out by the Committee for State Security (KGB) that was established in 1954.

In Lithuania, the KGB became the occupying power’s most important tool, keeping society in constant fear, carrying out repressions, and thus ensuring general obedience. This agency aimed to have complete control over society and turn it into a docile, faceless mass carrying out the instructions of the Soviet authorities without objection.

The virtual exhibition features documents, literature, photographs and equipment. An LSSR KGB educational album on trace research is published, as well as an album prepared by the LSSR KGB in the 1950s and 1960s about “legends” of special surveillance devices and cloaking techniques.