Languages: English, Russian You can get in touch with Isabel by emailing [email protected] or by following her on X @isabelvanbrugen Russia has revived SMERSH, a Stalin-era spy hunting ...

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 ...

SMERSH is a portmanteau of the Russian for "death to spies," or "smert shpionam." It was announced in 1943 as a move to target Nazi spy rings, traitors and foreign agents during the World War II ...

SMERSH, the official Soviet murder agency, has been trying to bury 007 for years, but the canny Briton keeps on surviving bullets, knives, bombs, sharks and poisons, notably a paralyzing fluid ...

Whether the U.S. would have been better or worse served if the Soviet army—or SMERSH—had elected to adopt the weapon is open to question. The U.S. Army tested the gun in December and has not ...

June 4, 2023: Because of the disastrous performance of the Russian military and intelligence agencies in Ukraine, many prominent Russians in the military and intelligence agencies are calling for ...

The MoD notes that it is not clear if the resurrected Smersh is a newly formed unit or just a new name for an existing unit which has been “re-badged”. It said the group was another example of ...

SMERSH is being used in parts of Ukraine that are under illegal occupation of Russia. Russia has revived SMERSH, a Soviet-era intelligence organisation, in parts of Ukraine that it illegally ...

What was notable, though, about this confessional was that the man was flanked by two internal security officers who had the word Smersh emblazoned on the backs of their jackets. Many people in the ...

The aggressor state of the russian federation has decided to restore the Soviet counterintelligence organization (CI) SMERSH. In particular, at the beginning of the month, a photo of operatives who ...