MGB

American  

1. the Ministry of State Security in the U.S.S.R. that functioned as the government's secret-police organization from 1946–53.

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MGB British  

abbreviation

1. Ministry of State Security; the Soviet secret police from 1946 to 1954

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Etymology

Origin of MGB

< Russian, for Ministérstvo gosudárstvennoĭ bezopásnosti

Example Sentences

Just after midnight on May 30, he left a party in his MGB sports car.

From The Wall Street Journal

“What should we do? Simply crush the Banderite swine as the Soviet MGB did after the war,” Medvedev wrote, referring to a forerunner of the KGB, “and liquidate their leaders on convenient occasions — like Konovalets and Bandera -– in Kyiv or any other convenient places.”

From Seattle Times

Not a big one, but you didn’t need a big one back then to buy a car like that: a zippy little two-liter, five-speed convertible that looks like an MGB but — pedants will tell you — actually predates that British model.

From Washington Post

Even when the car was running well — my Datsun was always more reliable than the MGB I once owned — driving it around Washington was a white-knuckle experience.

From Washington Post

Speaking of vintage cars, John Huber of Williamsburg, Va., owns one, a 1963 MGB.

From Washington Post