At the end of 2023, Russian politicians announced the restoration of the Soviet counterintelligence unit SMERSH, and already in early January, photos of militants with the corresponding stripes appeared in open sources.
The British Ministry of Defense intelligence recalled that the name of the unit — This is an abbreviation for the phrase “death to spies”. It was founded by Joseph Stalin. SMERSH detachments existed in 1941-1946.
In the West, this name became known thanks to fiction in Ian Fleming's books about James Bond.
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They don’t yet know whether the new name indicates some significantly new capabilities or role for Russian counterintelligence, or is it just a change of image.
— However, this is another example of how the Russian authorities are deliberately framing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the spirit of World War II, and also focusing on the likely penetration of external threats into the country, — British intelligence says.
The day before, British intelligence said that Russia had probably decided to significantly increase the combat effectiveness of the Russian Guard, having analyzed all the changes that had occurred with this military formation of the Russian Federation over the last six months.
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