Activities of the NKVD of the USSR on counterintelligence support of the partisan movement in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1943)

Abstract

The article analyzes the activities of the state security bodies (as part of the NKVD of the USSR) of counterintelligence support of the partisan movement, in order to identify and prevent the introduction of agents of the German special services into partisan formations and underground organizations, the creation of a secrecy regime in partisan detachments and formations, increasing the effectiveness of guerrilla warfare in the territories occupied by the enemy during the Great Patriotic War.