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MGB
- the Ministry of State Security in the U.S.S.R. that functioned as the government's secret-police organization from 1946–53.
MGB
abbreviation for
- Ministry of State Security; the Soviet secret police from 1946 to 1954
Word History and Origins
Origin of MGB1
Word History and Origins
Origin of MGB1
Example Sentences
“What should we do? Simply crush the Banderite swine as the Soviet MGB did after the war,” Medvedev wrote, referring to a forerunner of the KGB, “and liquidate their leaders on convenient occasions — like Konovalets and Bandera -– in Kyiv or any other convenient places.”
Not a big one, but you didn’t need a big one back then to buy a car like that: a zippy little two-liter, five-speed convertible that looks like an MGB but — pedants will tell you — actually predates that British model.
Even when the car was running well — my Datsun was always more reliable than the MGB I once owned — driving it around Washington was a white-knuckle experience.
Speaking of vintage cars, John Huber of Williamsburg, Va., owns one, a 1963 MGB.
Laurie Lawson shows his Free State pride on the hard top of his 1967 MGB.
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