Counterintelligence state
The term has been applied by historians and political commentators to the former Soviet Union , the former German Democratic Republic , Cuba after the 1959 revolution , Iraq under Saddam Hussein , and post-Soviet Russia under Vladimir Putin , especially since 2012 . 
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