SMERSH
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smersh-176-1137981
title:
SMERSH
text:
SMERSH was an umbrella organization for three independent counter-intelligence agencies in the Red Army formed in late 1942 or even earlier, but officially announced only on 14 April 1943. The name SMERSH was coined by Joseph Stalin. The formal justification for its creation was to subvert the attempts by Nazi German forces to infiltrate the Red Army on the Eastern Front. The official statute of SMERSH listed the following tasks to be performed by the organisation: counter-intelligence, counter-
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Soviet counterintelligence organs (1943–46)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH
date created:
2003-11-15T22:26:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T12:01:05Z
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