SMERSH, which was set up under Joseph Stalin, has re-emerged in Russia, the British Ministry of Defence said.

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Russia is re-forming an infamous Stalinist counterintelligence unit, UK intelligence said. SMERSH was used during the Communist era to catch spies. The Kremlin has intensified its search for ...

Russia has revived SMERSH, a Soviet-era intelligence organisation, in parts of Ukraine that it illegally annexed in recent years, Newsweek said. The report is based on the remarks made by Andrey ...

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