Question: Information: - The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR " ) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. A union of multiple subnational republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a one-party federation, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. - The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics ("soyuznye respubliki") of the Soviet Union were ethnically based administrative units that were subordinated directly to the Government of the Soviet Union. For most of its history, the Soviet Union was a highly centralized state; the decentralization reforms during the era of "Perestroika" ("Restructuring") and "Glasnost" ("Openness") conducted by Mikhail Gorbachev led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny ( Russian : , January 15 , 1924 -- January 12 , 2001 ) was the head of the KGB from November 1961 to April 1967 and prior to that in 1958 -- 1959 he headed Komsomol as the first secretary of the Central Committee . Before he became head of the KGB he had no experience in the field of intelligence and counter-intelligence . His mentor and predecessor was Alexander Shelepin . In October 1963 , Semichastny sanctioned the arrest of Professor Frederick Barghoorn of Yale University when he was visiting Moscow . Semichastny hoped that by charging Barghoorn as a spy he could induce the United States to release Igor Ivanov , arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that month for espionage . Barghoorn was a personal friend of President John F. Kennedy , who forcefully stated that Barghoorn was not involved in any illegal activities at a press conference . The Soviets subsequently released Barghoorn . Ivanov was allowed to leave the United States in 1971 . Subsequently , Semichastny participated in the ouster of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in October 1964 , an act that undoubtedly led to his being retained by the new Soviet leadership . There are some indications that Leonid Brezhnev , who led the coup against Khrushchev , wanted to assassinate him , but Semichastny refused to allow KGB participation . During his tenure Semichasnty attempted to create a new public image of the KGB , permitting an article to appear in the newspaper Izvestia that included an article with '' a senior KGB officer '' ( himself ) ; in the article he stated '' many young Communist Party and Communist Youth League workers have joined the KGB and none of the people who , during the time of Joseph Stalin 's cult of personality took part in the repressions against innocent Soviet people is now in the Service . '' More articles and books on the security organs appeared , and Soviet spies became heroes in print -- Rudolf Abel , Gordon Lonsdale , Harold ( Kim ) Philby , and Richard Sorge . Brezhnev... - The KGB, an initialism for "Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti" (translated in English as Committee for State Security), was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. Formed in 1954, as a direct successor of such preceding agencies as the Cheka, NKGB, and MGB, the committee was attached to the Council of Ministers. It was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", acting as internal security, intelligence, and secret police. Similar agencies were constituted in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from Russia and consisted of many ministries, state committees, and state commissions. - Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin (18 August 1918 24 October 1994) was a Soviet state security officer and party statesman. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its Politburo and was the head of the KGB from 25 December 1958 to 13 November 1961. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'member of political party' with the subject 'vladimir semichastny'. Choices: - communist party - communist party of the soviet union - union
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communist party of the soviet union