Troops of the NKVD at the front and in the rear

The participation of units and formations of the NKVD troops in the Great Patriotic War is the topic of little studied and mythologized. During the time of spathing his native story, only the lazy did not talk about the detachment, who allegedly shot in the back of the soldiers who hesitated to take the attack. But later, in the books that rushed to the shelves, there were almost no reliable information about the NKVD troops and the tasks that stood before them during the war.
Nikolai Starikov - a professional historian, has been engaged in the history of the NKV D. for many years, an impartial study, fully written on archival materials, including those from which the Grif “secretly” has not yet been removed. The historian considers literally all aspects of the activities of the NKVD troops in the Great Patriotic War: from participation in hostilities and to the protection of military facilities and convoy activities