front, the commander of the army general. rokossovsky defended the northern front of the kursk salient. and the troops of the voronezh front, commander general of the army vatutin southern front, the troops occupying the ledge relied on the steppe front, the commander general. colonel konev, shortly before the start of the berlin attack on operations within the smersh, special task forces were formed in accordance with the number of districts of berlin, their goal was to search for and arrest the leaders of the german government, and the search also kept valuables and documents of operational significance . those materials with data on the foreign policy of the third reich and information about foreign agents during the berlin operation, it was the smershevites who managed to capture prominent figures of the nazi regime and punitive departments, many of whom were subsequently charged with committing crimes against humanity. many smersh operations are still no secret. but this does not mean that they were not one by one at all. bit by bit, these operations reveal too much , as they say, now sensitive information is floating and, as they would say today, the creative appr