In SMERSH. Notes of a counterintelligence
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Fedor Abramov, a writer and publicist, one of the most famous representatives of "village prose", went to the front on June 22, 1941. He first served as a machine gunner, and after a severe wound he was transferred to the department of legendary counterintelligence "Death to spies! (SMERSH) ", where he went from an assistant to the operative to the senior investigator. He ended the war in 1945.
In his memoirs, Fedor Abramov tells what he did in Smersh: about the hunt for spies and saboteurs, the capture of deserters and others, but the book is not only about that. The author also shows the defense of Leningrad, in which he had a chance to participate, and the heavy battles of 1941-1942 in the north-west direction, but, most importantly, trying to understand why the Soviet people paid such a terrible price for victory, where were mistakes and miscalculations that came from, which came from They led to the death of millions of people
In his memoirs, Fedor Abramov tells what he did in Smersh: about the hunt for spies and saboteurs, the capture of deserters and others, but the book is not only about that. The author also shows the defense of Leningrad, in which he had a chance to participate, and the heavy battles of 1941-1942 in the north-west direction, but, most importantly, trying to understand why the Soviet people paid such a terrible price for victory, where were mistakes and miscalculations that came from, which came from They led to the death of millions of people