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Majid: What is the song Stranger in Moscow by Michael Jackson about, and what is KGB that appears in the lyrics?

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The song Stranger in Moscow by Michael is about what, and KGB that appears in the lyrics—what is it?

Michael wrote this song about his own feeling of loneliness in Moscow. Because when he was in Moscow to perform, despite having many fans and a huge crowd, he felt an unusual sense of loneliness. That’s when he decides to create a song like this.

KGB is an abbreviation for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, which means the country’s security committee.

In fact, KGB is the same as Russia’s intelligence agency.