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As a loyal and dependable kgb agent. and it's there that he begins to see things in a different light. [tim] the turning point for him was the soviet decision to crush the prague spring. an attempt at liberalizing the soviet-style regime in czechoslovakia in 1968. gordievsky has had an internal personal shift. he recognizes the inherent repressiveness of the soviet system which, as a kgb officer, he's sworn to defend. this is an ideological decision for him.
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