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General Gurulev confirms. Russians have revived Smersh
General Andrey Gurulev, a member of the State Duma Defense Committee, indicated that Russia has established a department in the occupied territories operating similarly to Smersh in the USSR.
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Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond
The agency, named SMERSH, a Russian abbreviation for Smert’ Shpionam, or Death to Spies, developed a toolbox of tricks meant to identify the Nazi collaborators and lure them into elaborate traps ...
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How post-war Soviet counter-intelligence worked to usher in the USSR’s missile arsenal
"The staff of the Smersh [military counter-intelligence] department ... their families had been brought to the territory of the USSR. Subsequently, Grottrup took part in work led by renowned ...
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RUSSIA: Anniversary Executions
Abakumov, onetime chief of SMERSH, Russia’s World War II counterespionage organization, was tried in Leningrad a fortnight ago before the military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R ...
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FSB declassifies testimony by Hitler’s personal pilot about Nazi leadership’s final hours
The FSB’s public relations center said in a note accompanying the disclosed documents the officers of the Soviet military counter-intelligence service Smersh (the Russian acronym of Death to ...