KGB Museum
Private collection of Soviet secret-police artifacts, including Trotsky's assassination weapon and Lenin's death mask.
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This guide to the KGB Museum in Prague opens with the ice axe used against Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940, now on display a few floors above a quiet Prague street. You'll hear how a single collector, raised in St. Petersburg on stories of his father's military years, began salvaging Soviet secret-police files, uniforms and hardware after the USSR collapsed, and built the first place anywhere to display them together. Lenin's death mask and Lavrentiy Beria's radio turn up along the way, and the founder has his own answer for why this museum sits in Prague rather than Moscow.
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