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StB

plainclothes secret (political) police force in former Czechoslovakia from 1945 to its dissolution in 1990
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Summary

StB is an organization[1]. StB ranks in the top 3% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,246 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Czechoslovakia[3]
  • Instance of: secret police[4]
  • Headquarters location: Bartolomějská[5]
  • Commons category: Státní bezpečnost[6]
  • Inception: June 30, 1945[7]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1990[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:StB[9]
  • Applies to jurisdiction: Czechoslovakia[10]
  • Native label: Státní bezpečnost[11], Štátna bezpečnosť[12]
  • Short name: StB[13], ŠtB[14]

Why It Matters

StB has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] StB is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Czechoslovakia Military counterintelligence organization

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . mistapametinaroda.cz. mistapametinaroda.cz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Headquarters location → Bartolomějská
    Inception → +1945-06-30T00:00:00Z
    Country → Czechoslovakia
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: k0005589-ceskoslovensko-Statni-bezpecnost, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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