Most Feared/Efficient Warsaw Pact(Not counting KGB) secret police?

Drakker

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From what I heard, the Sigurmi got so good at counter espionage because every fifteen years or so Albania would break off an alliance and they'd kill anybody who'd ever said anything nice or had contacts with the ex-ally, effectively draining the pond, in a way.

It seems that generally speaking the Stasi are regarded by most to be the most effective East Bloc secret police. Which was my personal opinion, but since I'm basically a newbie it's always cool when it seems like you got something right haha. What interests me is that nobody's mentioned the Czechs, Poles or Tito's boys. What were they up to?
 
Not Warsaw pact but UDBA was very much this and the acronym is widely used to refer to a perceived powerful coterie from the intelligence service (usually with the implication that it hasn't changed). What particularly strengthens it is probably that Yugoslavia was not in the Warsaw Pact so there wasn't even a Soviet Union to be viewed as a tyrannical adversary, no KGB being reported to. I suspect Sigurimi and Securitatea are similar in this respect.
 
As an East German saying went: "The Gestapo were bone breakers. The Stasi are soul breakers." The Stasi had a massive base of informers, an even larger dossier on the East German citizenry, and engaged in a massive psych-ops campaign against dissidents.
 
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