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| | Smersh Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Smersh (short for Smert' Shpionam (Death to Spies!)), was 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". |
 | | Smersh was also used by INO(the NKVD's later KGB FCD,First Chief Directorite, responsible for forign intelligence operations outside of the USSR) to hunt down "enemies of the people" outside of Soviet Territory, this was including but not limited to, supporters of Leon Trotsky, White Guard units, White Bolsheviks, and others, as well as traitors. |
 | | Eventually, Smersh's activites, were slowed down, though never really ceased, though its name may have changed as the NKVD changed, its duties always remained the same. |
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