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Anyone have information on "SMERSH"? [9]
Thanks I don't like to trust wikipidea but they had alot on them. I wonder why they are not brought up more?
The SMERSH was directly involved in the collection, interrogation, and execution of tens of thousands of Polish military officers, clerics, and political leaders at the Katyn Forest Massacre. The SMERSH was also actively involved in the capture, of tens if not hundreds of thousands of suspected disloyalists, anti-Soviets, and White Partisans in the Soviet Union such as forced repatriation, and execution of Soviet citizens who had been active in anti-communist armed groups fighting on the side of Nazi Germany such as the Russian Liberation Army, the Cossack Corps of Pyotr Krasnov, and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. This also included eastern POWs and eastern workers. Finally, SMERSH handled the capture and interrogations and executions of hundreds of thousands of German and Japanese POWs as well as the capture of thousands of American, British, Australian, New Zealand, Dutch, French and Nationalist Chinese soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, as well as expatriates. Though a few thousand of the German and Japanese PoW's were released after Stalin's death in March, 1953, the "Allied Disappeared" were never seen again. The USSR, and the present Russian Federation, claim to know nothing about these many thousand "Allied Disappeared."[citation needed] The USSR feared these members of the Allies that ended up on the USSR's territory would tell what they saw, and Stalin feared a cutoff of the Arctic and Persian supply convoys.[citation needed]
