Beria and the NKVD on the eve and during the Great Patriotic War. North A.

Disputes about the personality of Lavrenty Beria still do not subside: who he was - an “enemy of the people” and a bloody dictator or one of those who strengthened the power of the Soviet state?

How did his appointment reflected in the fall of 1938 For the post of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs for the combat effectiveness of the NKVD? What did his subordinates during the war years do and what did many of the Chekists receive combat orders? Why exactly the intelligence groups and special detachments of the NKVD, and not by military intelligence or partisan detachments, the command of the Red Army entrusted the fulfillment of the most difficult tasks? Reading audience on his detailed research on the history of Soviet special services.