SMERSH

SMERSH (short for SMERt' SHpionam (?????? ???????), or "Death to Spies") was the name of counterintelligence departments in the Soviet Union formed during the Great Patriotic War, to secure the rear of the active Red Army, on the front to arrest "traitors, deserters, spies, and criminal elements".

Related Topics:
Death - Spies - Counterintelligence - Soviet Union - Great Patriotic War - Red Army - Traitors - Deserters

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