Are they fanatics or heroes?

In many films about war, the image of a particular person causesanger, contempt and even hatred. After watching them, many people formed the opinion that special people are people who can shoot an innocent person practically without trial and effect. That these people are not familiar with the concepts of charity and compassion, justice and honesty.

So who are they? Are they fanatics who sought to imprison any person, or people who had a heavy burden on their shoulders during the Great Patriotic War? Let's figure it out.

Special department

It was established at the end of 1918 and belonged to the counterintelligence unit that was part of the Soviet army. His main task was to protect state security and fight against espionage.

In April 1943, special departments began to bear a different name - the SMERSH authorities (was deciphered as "death to spies"). They created their own agent network and started cases on all soldiers and officers.

Particulars during the war

According to the films, we know that if a detachment came to the military unit, people could not expect anything good. There is a natural question: how was it really?

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, a hugethe number of servicemen did not have certificates. Through the front line, a huge number of people without documents were constantly moving. German spies could easily carry out their activities. Therefore, it was quite natural that there was a heightened interest among the Specialists towards people who had fallen out of the circle. In difficult conditions they had to establish the identity of people and be able to identify German agents.

For a long time in the Soviet Union it was believed that special forces were being created by special forces, who were to shoot retreating military units. In fact, everything was different.

Specialists are people who risked theirlife is no less than the soldiers and commanders of the Red Army. Together with all they participated in the offensive and retreated, and if the commander perished, they had to take command of themselves and raise the soldiers to attack. Miracles of self-sacrifice and heroism they showed at the front. At the same time, they had to fight with panic-strikers and cowards, as well as identify enemy spies and spies.

Interesting Facts

1. Specialists could not without trial and effectto shoot servicemen. In one case, they could use weapons: when someone tried to cross over to the side of the enemy. But then each such situation was thoroughly investigated. In other cases, only the information on the revealed violations was transmitted to the military prosecutor's office.
2. At the beginning of the war, a large number ofexperienced, specially trained and having a legal education of employees of special departments. In their place were forced to take people without training and necessary knowledge, which often violated the law.
3. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in the special departments in total there were about four hundred employees.

Thus, the specials are first of all people who tried to fulfill their mission of protecting the state, which was assigned to them honestly.