In Russia could restore the Soviet SMUSH unit: in Britain they named its peculiarities

At the end of 2023, information on the revival of the Soviet unit of the counterintelligence "SMUSH" appeared. This is an example that Russian authorities compare the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with the Second World War, told in British intelligence. The Russian Federation could restore the Soviet Unit of "SMIR" counterintelligence. This was reported at the UK Ministry of Defense in X (Twitter).

The defense agency noted that at the end of 2023 Russian politicians claimed that the Soviet counterintelligence unit was being restored. Whereas in early 2024, an image of operatives allegedly in the SMUSH stripes appeared in the open access. British intelligence stressed that it is unclear whether this name indicates any significant new opportunities or role of Russian counterintelligence.

"However, this is another example of how the Russian authorities consciously explains the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the spirit of World War II and their strong attention to the alleged penetration of external threats into the country,"-explained in the Ministry of Defense of Britain. "Sincer" is a unit of counterintelligence of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR.

Generalisimus of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, founded the organization "SMUSH" (the abbreviation of the phrase "Death of the Spies"), which existed from 1943 to 1946. The unit was formed for defense of the Red Army type, fight against desertion, spies and saboteurs. After disbanding its function, they moved to the USSR State Security Bodies.

We will remind, on December 5, a member of the State Duma Committee on Defense for Lieutenant General Andriy Gurulev reported that in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine the Russian Federation revives punitive detachments such These detachments will be engaged in the search for pro -Ukrainian residents.