It really hurts your credibility when you mix up distinct Soviet eras.
The Gulag system began to be dismantled immediately upon Stalin's death and was fully dismantled by 1960.
The Gulag system began to be dismantled immediately upon Stalin's death and was fully dismantled by 1960.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/10/new-russian-prison... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/08/i-was-always-s...
Stories about KGB are popular for a reason, you know.
By the way, the police and the KGB often didn't get along. There was a famous case where a couple of cops who were very drunk robbed a high-ranking KGB official (he was carrying food from one of those "special" stores). When their senior found out, he decided that it'd be better to cover it up, and had the KGB guy killed and dumped the body in the woods. The KGB eventually unraveled the case - and many other similar ones, of cops partaking in robberies and beatings.
(https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-12-26-%0A---war-of-th...)
So on the whole, I suspect you'd be far more likely to be brutalized by the Soviet cops than by KGB.