Smersh – The Beat From 20,000 Fathoms

Still on a Smersh kick. This record is a 1986 release on RRRecords. It is a kind of sampler of tracks from their cassette only releases at the time with three new tunes thrown in for good measure.

It gives the people what they want Leftfield Synthpunk tinged Industrial. I’m into it.

Linara Rasulova, a chemistry teacher, sang Chervona Kalyna and the Ukrainian anthem for her students. She also wrote Crimea is Ukraine on social media. The Crimean Smersh took notice of this. As is their custom when anyone does anything Ukrainian in Crimea, they burst into her home and forced her to apologize under a portrait of Putin.

By the next day, she is fired.

songs - (I find this hard to watch because the children begin singing the Russian Anthem over her)

arrested https://t.me/cremeasmersh/72

If you're a James Bond fan, the word SMERSH (СМЕРШ) may look familiar. If you're a little rusty with 007 lore, check this out.

SMERSH was Stalin's military counterintelligence agency which eventually became part of the KGB – the predecessor to Russia's FSB.

So Vladimir Putin, a former lieutenant colonel in the KGB, is reviving SMERSH.

Russia has revived SMERSH, a Stalin-era spy hunting organization, in parts of Ukraine that were illegally annexed and are partially under the control of Kremlin forces, a Russian politician and Kremlin propagandist announced Sunday. Andrey Gurulyov, a Russian parliament (Duma) member and former military commander, made the remarks during an appearance on state television channel Russia-1, an excerpt of which was posted to his Telegram channel. SMERSH, an acronym for the Russian words "death to spies"—"smert" meaning death and "shpionam" meaning spies—was the name of an organization formed by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. It was tasked with the elimination of anti-communist activity during World War II. "We talked about SMERSH, today we created a department that works in approximately the same way in new territories," said Gurulyov, referring to the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

Those recent Ukrainian attacks on Russian railroad infrastructure in Siberia and the Russian Far East possibly had something to do with the timing of the SMERSH reboot.

The organization, notorious for its brutality, was behind the arrest, torture and execution of thousands of people, including any its own agents suspected of sabotage, desertion, or disloyalty. However, the group prevented many attempts on the lives of top Soviet officials, including Stalin himself, Russian news outlet Lenta reported. Gurulyov said a similar structure should also operate once again in Russia. "Today they are trying to interfere with [our operations in non-frontline areas]. I talked to the Far East, where we have nuclear submarines and [where] our ships [are] based. They may also be in danger, so we need to approach protection issues a little differently," the politician said.

Smersh - Hothouse Body In A Cool Culture

Atlas King

Classic Cold War spy story. A spy exchange. Russia’s near abroad is constantly the target of espionage operations. They don’t even use the SVR, but the FSB to show they still consider it “internal.”