For the first time, Beria's secret report to Stalin about the traitors to the Motherland was released

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

A series of publications from the so-called "Special Folder" of Stalin are especially important documents that fell on the table of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Some of these reports are still classified, but some of them, which are included in this heading, have recently been removed from the classification.

The period from 1944 to 1953 was selected for publication - from the time the Red Army began to successfully advance against the Nazi troops, until the death of Joseph Stalin.

The published documents allow one to feel the spirit and general mood of that harsh epoch - behind the meager numbers and enumerations of captured saboteurs, destroyed enemies and counting civilians destroyed in the Crimea by the fascists, there is a country warped by the war.

The first document is a report to Stalin on how the NKVD troops are cleaning the rear of the advancing Red Army, dated January 8, 1944. The declassified paper says that in 1943 alone, the state security bodies detained almost a million (931 thousand) people in the territories liberated from German troops. Among them - 582 thousand military and 349 thousand civilians.

But only 80 thousand of the total number of those detained were exposed and arrested on various charges - as the report says, these are 4822 German agents, 14626 traitors and traitors, 5663 policemen and punishers, 21022 German henchmen and accomplices, 23418 deserters, 929 marauders and 9816 - other criminal element.

Also in the document "Special folder" it is reported that 95 agents-paratroopers of the German intelligence were detained - they were handed over to the organs of "Smersh". Separately, the report emphasizes that most of the detainees are in the rear of the Western, Belorussian and 3rd Ukrainian fronts.

It is known that already in 1943, armed bands were operating in the rear of the Red Army - 114 such groups were liquidated, which consisted mainly of deserters and accomplices of the Germans. The NKVD troops often had to engage in real clashes with bandits and saboteurs - for example, in a document addressed to Stalin it is indicated that in the rear of the Karelian Front alone in 1943 there were 29 battles with scouts and saboteurs of the enemy.

At the same time, in addition to performing the main tasks of protecting the rear, the NKVD troops were involved in battles with regular German units - for this, as the report says, three regiments and three non-separate battalions were involved. The report on the activities of the NKVD troops was prepared on behalf of Lavrenty Beria.

Another nail in Svanidze's coffin: archival documents confirm that there were traitors and spies in the USSR who were in the Gulag or went to the expense and who were later recorded as victims of the bloody regime by Svanidze.