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Description:SMERSH, acronym of the Russian phrase �'Death to Spies’, is primarily known as 007’s sinister opponent in Ian Fleming novels. Yet SMERSH was a real organization, as diabolical as its fictional counterpart. No information was available on this organization until the fall of the USSR. Its importance to WWII history is relatively unknown to scholars. Ostensibly a military counterintelligence organization dedicated to fighting Nazis, it spent considerable time & effort terrifying its own, including writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was arrested for writing to a fellow officer. Its activities often strayed into political spheres, exemplified by the arrests of political leaders & foreign diplomats in Eastern Europe, including the famous rescuer of Hungarian Jews, Raoul Wallenberg, at WWII's end. While formally part of the Defence Commissariat, SMERSH wasn't under the control of the military hierarchy. In reality it was a secret service independent of other security organizations. Its head, Viktor Abakumov, a powerful shadowy figure whose biography is revealed here for the 1st time, reported directly to Stalin on a daily basis. Based on many Russian documents & memoirs, this book details all its known activities—its clever �radio games, which used captured officers to lure German intelligence into traps, mass vetting of Soviet troops who'd been German prisoners, arrest & persecution of Red Army generals, infiltration of Nazi spy schools, participation in military tribunals & the �NKVD's Special Board, & participation in the Nuremberg trials & the �Sovietization of Eastern Europe. Now, after a decade of research, a critical missing piece of the history of WWII & the Soviet secret services is finally exposed.ForewordAcknowledgmentsNotes on Transliteration & Archival MaterialsIntroductionThe big pictureThe roots of SMERSHMilitary counterintelligence: July 1941-April 1943German intelligence services at the Eastern front The birth of SMERSH SMERSH in action: 1943-44Towards Berlin The end of WWIISMERSH after the war: 1945-46Epilogue: the road to the top: Abakumov becomes a ministerNotesIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon, Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII. To get started finding SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon, Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Biteback Publishing Ltd. (London)

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ISBN: 1849541086

Description: SMERSH, acronym of the Russian phrase �'Death to Spies’, is primarily known as 007’s sinister opponent in Ian Fleming novels. Yet SMERSH was a real organization, as diabolical as its fictional counterpart. No information was available on this organization until the fall of the USSR. Its importance to WWII history is relatively unknown to scholars. Ostensibly a military counterintelligence organization dedicated to fighting Nazis, it spent considerable time & effort terrifying its own, including writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was arrested for writing to a fellow officer. Its activities often strayed into political spheres, exemplified by the arrests of political leaders & foreign diplomats in Eastern Europe, including the famous rescuer of Hungarian Jews, Raoul Wallenberg, at WWII's end. While formally part of the Defence Commissariat, SMERSH wasn't under the control of the military hierarchy. In reality it was a secret service independent of other security organizations. Its head, Viktor Abakumov, a powerful shadowy figure whose biography is revealed here for the 1st time, reported directly to Stalin on a daily basis. Based on many Russian documents & memoirs, this book details all its known activities—its clever �radio games, which used captured officers to lure German intelligence into traps, mass vetting of Soviet troops who'd been German prisoners, arrest & persecution of Red Army generals, infiltration of Nazi spy schools, participation in military tribunals & the �NKVD's Special Board, & participation in the Nuremberg trials & the �Sovietization of Eastern Europe. Now, after a decade of research, a critical missing piece of the history of WWII & the Soviet secret services is finally exposed.ForewordAcknowledgmentsNotes on Transliteration & Archival MaterialsIntroductionThe big pictureThe roots of SMERSHMilitary counterintelligence: July 1941-April 1943German intelligence services at the Eastern front The birth of SMERSH SMERSH in action: 1943-44Towards Berlin The end of WWIISMERSH after the war: 1945-46Epilogue: the road to the top: Abakumov becomes a ministerNotesIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon, Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII. To get started finding SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon, Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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