According to the laws of wartime. Mzareulov V.

“Always like that. The army considers us the state security authorities, and the authorities consider us an army, ”the hero of the cult Soviet novel about military counterintelligence is lamenting.

we can say this way, and this will probably be true. And it is possible to otherwise - in the Great Patriotic War, the special departments of the NKVD and counterintelligence Smersh fought with the enemy immediately on both fronts: the front is clear, in the ranks of the Red Army, and the front secret. counterintelligence, who saw the war with their own eyes. This book contains their evidence, with wide strokes drawing a picture of this side of the war.