Legends of “SMERSH” without “Secret” neck

In the spring of 1943, the Germans suffer a crushing defeat at Stalingrad. In the war there is a radical change. Wehrmacht plans to take revenge in the summer at the Kursk Bulge. Now everything depends on who and how well will be aware of the plans of the enemy. The German Intelligence and Counterintelligence Service Abwehr begins a massive transfer to the USSR of well-trained intelligence officers and saboteurs. But the Kremlin has something to answer.

76 years ago, in April 1943, Stalin created the State Counterintelligence Directorate SMERSH, an abbreviation of which was derived from the slogan Death to the Spies. On the account of the military counterintelligence "SMERSH" hundreds of successful operations in their own rear and rear areas of the enemy, thousands of defused spies, saboteurs, agents of enemy intelligence, brilliant radio games and ingenious disinformation of the enemy. It is this organization throughout the world that will be recognized as the most effective intelligence service during the war years.

What made the legendary Soviet military counterintelligence SMERSH beat the Abwehr? Who was behind these unique operations?

About the heroes, whose names have been kept secret for a very long time, will tell the film-dedication “Legends of“ SMERSH ”

Comments

[CommanderDIVA]

Roman Bogomolova "in August 44" is the best I've met from books about military counterintelligence during the Second World War

[Igoresha]

on iremember.ru the section devoted to Smersh and counterintelligence lies, although small, for obvious reasons, but informative

[tihonmarine]

Now there are many documentary books and memoirs about Smersh, even a series of such books. These books cover the Second World War and the Japanese, separate books are "I fought with Bandera." Look on book sites, very serious publications, you will not regret it. I don’t remember the author now, (I’m not working from my home computer) Colonel GB writes there very well, later I worked at Smersh the book tells from the pre-war period to the end of the 50s in Ukraine. He writes very interestingly.

[Igor Shcherbina]

A terrific film, these are people, their way to know is our youth, and we only play entertainment programs at House 2, comedy klap, from which young people are just getting dull and degrading.

[Avis-bis]

Quote: Igor Shcherbina

A terrific film, these are people, their way to know is our youth, and we only play entertainment programs at House 2, comedy klap, from which young people are just getting dull and degrading.

About "SMERSH" is also twisted, there is some kind of TV series. But such rot shows that it would be better not to twist.

[Ros 56]

Then this service did its job, but now we urgently need an economic "SMERSH" with the fullest set of powers, and if they themselves got it, they would be shot without trial.

[U-58]

The merits of "Smersh" cannot be underestimated.
But the attitude of "allied" special services to military counterintelligence happened ... different.
Summer 45 years.
There is a secretive troop transfer to the East to strike at Japan.
Reconnaissance by the NKVD Border Troops at one major railway junction reveals a Japanese residency. She (the spy network) monitors this very transfer, which creates a threat to the secrecy of the accumulation of troops.
Scouts collect FULL information about spies and report to the Center.
A command comes from there: transfer all materials to SMERSH, to eliminate the enemies.
The local intelligence chief holds a meeting with his own people, where he says like "we found the gold, collected it, sent it, and now what, give it to the bone breakers from SMERSH? Well, no!"
The entire network was liquidated by themselves.
True, during the detention of the resident I had to shoot a little .... some were injured.
As a result, everyone was awarded military orders.

[CommanderDIVA]

The main task of the NKVD USSR reconnaissance of the neighboring territory, judging by your comment on the territory of China or Manchou at SMERSH, is the counterintelligence function in the Red Army, the main but with all due respect for border intelligence, the Smershcet’s competence in capturing and eliminating enemy agents is undoubtedly higher, but the border guards liquidated enemy residency well done

[U-58]

In 1942, a board of the Border Troops was held at the NKVD.
In particular, the ambiguity of the reconnaissance tasks of the border troops was declared in connection with the "disappearance" of the border from the White Sea to the Black Sea.
In response to this, the chairman of the board, L.P. Beria, without thinking twice, said:
Ne can go on a reconnaissance, go go on a counterintelligence.
Which was done
In addition, in the early post-war years, border guards were included in the search for traitors and traitors, who settled in large numbers in eastern Siberia and the Far East in the hope of hiding from justice.
It got to the point that in the orientations there was ONLY a verbal portrait and description of the committed atrocities.
Border guards did not flush here either.
Dozens of German henchmen were cured and detained

[CommanderDIVA]

Cognitively, we were not told about this on an excursion in the central border museum

[U-58]

My grandfather, a participant in the events described, told me about this.
It was he who was wounded.
In the neighborhood was awarded the Order of the Red Banner