After Schiller found the safe left behind by his former self beneath the Metropolis estate, he retrieved the "Philby List" that everyone had been searching for. At the same time, there was also a Soviet Union medal inside, proving that the original Schiller might have had ties to the Soviet Union.
And now, Schiller's former classmate Brand had personally admitted that Schiller was indeed a Marxist. Not only had he once been to East Berlin, he had even lived in Moscow, joined the KGB, and eventually defected from it.
According to Brand, Schiller had come to Gotham for refuge precisely to escape the KGB.
That made sense. From the scattered clues, Schiller had discovered that the original Schiller had not been a simple man. Ordinary enemies would not have forced him to hide in this city of sin, but if it was the KGB, then even the current Schiller had to treat them carefully.
Many people might not have known just how powerful this organization was. After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the FSB that emerged from the KGB had never been particularly renowned, but during the Soviet era, the KGB had unquestionably been the world's number one intelligence agency.
Because of ideological conflicts, the Soviet Union had always been opposed to the entire world, and the KGB had always been opposed to intelligence agencies across the globe. During the years when the Soviet Union still existed, this intelligence agency had constantly faced the disadvantage of fighting one against many. Yet in the end, all the intelligence agencies of other nations had needed to unite just to barely withstand its offensive.
Of course, since it was now 1988, the Soviet Union's internal contradictions were severe and its economy was no longer what it had been. The KGB's glory had