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Facts on SMERSH.
· Founded April 14 1943; disbanded in 1946
· Was the main counter- intelligence directorate of the U.S.S.R.'s People's Commissariat of Defence
· SMERSH units re-established Soviet administration in territories liberated by the Red Army;
· SMERSH was a division of the NKVD (the pre-cursor to the KGB) that reported directly to Stalin
Sources: The Oxford Companion to World War II, © 2001, World War II: A Statistical Survey, © 1993
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