"General of SMERSH." How the Cruel Executioner and War Hero was tortured and shot

Colonel-General Viktor Semyonovich AbakUmov, the Minister of State Security of the USSR from 1946 to 1951, the head of the legendary SMERSH, is considered by some to be a monster and an executioner who ruthlessly destroyed everyone unwanted by the Soviet regime, while others consider him almost the savior of the Fatherland. This person can be called an executioner and a victim in equal measure.
Victor Abakumov was born on April 11, 1908 in the family of a laborer and a laundress. The childhood and adolescence of the future leader of SMERSH was held in Moscow.
The boy's parents were uneducated people, like many urban poor. My father made a living cleaning hospital premises, and then got a job as a stoker. Before the revolution, her mother worked in a sewing workshop, and after the change of power, she got a job as a laundress in a medical institution.
In addition to Victor, the family had four children. It is clear that the childhood of the future People's Commissar was bleak.
Nominating his candidacy for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, in the column on education, Abakumov indicated four years of the city school, but according to some evidence, the candidate overestimated this figure by a year.
In the Civil, he went to serve in the Red Army at the age of 13. After the war, he was interrupted by odd jobs, and in 1925 he took the place of a packer in the Moscow Union of Industrial Cooperation. In 1927, Victor joined the Komsomol, and here his meteoric rise began. At first, he grew up along the Komsomol line, and in 1932 an active young man was noticed and attracted to work in the state security bodies. First, a trainee in the economic department of the United State Political Administration, abbreviated OGPU. In 1936, Abakumov was already a lieutenant, and in 1939 - the head of the NKVD department for the Rostov region.
It cannot be said that Abakumov during these years was distinguished by some special talents in operational work. Comrades called him "the foxtrot" for his addiction to entertainment and the female sex. The authorities sometimes found him in a safe apartment with cute young ladies, whom Abakumov passed off as his informants. However, drunkenness, and girls, and other sins up to "political illiteracy", for which he was severely sandwiched in 1933 - Abakumov got away with everything. We talked about some patrons somewhere “at the very top”. But, perhaps, everything is simpler. During the period of the "big terror", the authorities needed not too reflective, ready to carry out any order without pity and sentimentality. Such as Abakumov. He perfectly knew how to beat out testimony from the most obstinate suspects.
Abakumov was appointed Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs in February 1941. At that time he was only 33 years old. Abakumov was subordinate to the Main Police Department, the Main Fire Department and Special Departments in the army and navy. And yet, Viktor Semyonovich led the deportation in Estonia. More than 9 thousand people were repressed under his direct leadership in this new republic of the USSR.
In June 1941, just three hours after the start of the war, Abakumov took part in the development of the Plan of Undercover Operational Measures to Ensure the State Security of Moscow and the Moscow Region. From the first days of the war, Abakumov has been organizing intelligence work in parts of the Red Army, among the civilian population, as well as fighting desertion and working on enemy territory. He is doing it successfully, since in July he was awarded the title of State Security Commissioner of the 3rd rank, and then appointed head of the department of special departments, abbreviated as UOO. You can assess this eerie structure as you like, but it is worth remembering that the tragic summer of 1941 was marked by massive desertions and panic in the ranks of many parts of the Red Army. And if it were not for the activities of the UOO, who really brought order at the front with an iron hand, it is not known how the war would have ended in general.
In April 1943, Abakumov made a report to Stalin on the need to create a military counterintelligence body - GUKR "SMERSH" of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR. Stalin takes a positive decision and appoints Abakumov as the head of the newly created structure on the basis of the UOO. SMERSH, as you know, means "Death to Spies". The successes of SMERSH during the war years are undeniable. Thanks to the activities of Soviet counterintelligence officers, many of the plans of the Germans became known to our command long before the start of their implementation. The SMERSHites were playing clever radio games with the enemy, misinforming the Hitlerite generals.
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