WWII USSR wax seal counterintelligence department 10th Fighter Aviation Division

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Your attention is invited to a RARE collectible item from the WWII - the original wax seal of the
SMERSH counterintelligence department of the 10th Fighter Aviation Division of the Red Army.
Smersh (short for "Death to Spies!") was the name of a number of independent counterintelligence organizations in the Soviet Union during World War II.
Created on April 19, 1943 by a secret Decree of the Soviet Government.
In 1941, Stalin signed a decree of the State Defense Committee of the USSR on the state check (filtering) of the Red Army soldiers who were captured or surrounded by enemy troops. A similar procedure was carried out with regard to the operational composition of the state security agencies. The filtration of military personnel provided for the identification of traitors, spies and deserters among them. By a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of January 6, 1945, departments for repatriation affairs began to function at the headquarters of the fronts, in which employees of the Smersh bodies took part. Collection points were created to receive and check Soviet citizens who were detained in the territories previously controlled by the German troops and the occupation administration of the Third Reich, and now occupied by the advancing Red Army.
The main opponents of SMERSH in its counterintelligence activities were: the Abwehr (the German intelligence and counterintelligence service in 1919-1944), the field gendarmerie and the Main Directorate of Imperial Security of Germany.
The service of the operational staff of the SMERSH GUKR was extremely dangerous - on average, the operative served for 3 months, after which he retired due to death or injury.
From 1941 to 1945, about 700 thousand people were arrested by Soviet authorities - about 70 thousand of them were shot. Several million people passed through the “purgatory” of SMERSH, and about a quarter of them were also executed.
The activities of the SMERSH included the filtering of soldiers returning from captivity, as well as the preliminary cleaning of the front line from German agents and anti-Soviet elements (together with the NKVD troops to protect the rear of the army and the territorial bodies of the NKVD). SMERSH took an active part in the search, detention and investigation of Soviet citizens who acted in anti-Soviet armed groups that fought on the side of Germany, such as the Russian Liberation Army.
At the same time, SMERSH performed the function of a secret police in the troops, each unit had its own special officer who dealt with soldiers and officers with problematic biographies and recruited agents. To monitor and control dissent, SMERSH created and maintained a whole system of surveillance of citizens in the rear and at the front. Death threats led to cooperation with the secret service and to baseless accusations against military personnel and civilians.
SMERSH also played a big role in the spread of the Stalinist system of terror to the countries of Eastern Europe, where regimes friendly to the Soviet Union were established. For example, in the territory of Poland and Germany after the war, some former Nazi concentration camps continued to function "under the auspices" of SMERSH as a place of repression of ideological opponents of the new regimes (as a justification, information is given that in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald a few years after the war there were more than 60 thousand .opponents of the socialist choice.
Wax seal inscription:
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People's Commissariat of Defense; Department of counterintelligence SMERSH of the 10th Guards Stalingrad Fighter Aviation Division; for packages
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The 10th Guards Stalingrad Fighter Aviation Division was created on August 24, 1943 by renaming for the exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown by the 201st Stalingrad Fighter Aviation Division on the basis of the Order of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR. Participation in operations and battles: Battle of Kursk - from July 21, 1943 to August 23, 1943 Izyum-Barvenkovskaya offensive operation - from July 21, 1943 to July 27, 1943 Belgorod-Kharkov operation - from August 3, 1943 to August 23, 1943 Donbass operation - in the period from August 13, 1943 to September 22, 1943 Dnieper airborne operation - in the period from September 23, 1943 to November 13, 1943 Zaporozhye operation - in the period from October 10, 1943 to October 14, 1943 Kiev operation - in the period from November 3, 1943 to December 22, 1943 Korsun-Shevchenko operation - in the period from January 24, 1944 to February 17, 1944 Nikopol-Krivoy Rog offensive operation - from January 30, 1944 to February 29, 1944 Rovno-Lutsk offensive operation - from January 27 to February 11, 1944 Proskurov-Chernivtsi offensive operation - from March 4, 1944 to April 17, 1944 Odessa offensive operation - in the period from March 26, 1944 to April 14, 1944 Lvov-Sandomierz operation - in the period from July 13, 1944 to August 29, 1944 Iasi-Chisinau operation - in the period from August 20, 1944 to August 29, 1944 Carpathian-Dukla operation - in the period from September 8, 1944 to October 28, 1944 East Carpathian operation - in the period from September 8, 1944 to October 28, 1944 West Carpathian operation - in the period from January 12, 1945 to February 18, 1945 Moravian-Ostrava offensive operation - in the period from March 10, 1945 to May 5, 1945 Prague operation - in the period from May 6, 1945 to May 11, 1945
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