in our rear people 's commissar of defense. stalin , viktor abakumov was appointed head of the main directorate of counterintelligence smersh, the new department was directly subordinated personally. stalin counterintelligence officers. smeshi often worked not only in parts of the red army, often revealing traitors to german intelligence agents, but also , along with the front, fought their way to the west, where work became more and more among the counterintelligence officers and their heroes during the great patriotic war on the battlefields. uh, 6,000 military counterintelligence officers laid down their lives. among them, uh, four uh, received the title of hero of the soviet union. in our time , the fact that the first star the hero was received by pyotr zhitkov, a military counterintelligence officer who died in hand-to-hand combat during the liberation of kiev . having liberated soviet territories , the red army continued to move towards berlin. state security. e in the unified fist to clear the rear of the army in order

to voroshilov, comrade people 's commissar of defense, i take the liberty of turning to you again withmanifestation of injustice , since i don’t feel anything discrediting me. all my service in the red army passed in front of the pines of commanders and thousands of red army soldiers. what could be harder? than the consciousness that i have conquered my with their blood, the honorable right to be a citizen of the true fatherland of the workers of the ussr more than once, who sacrificed their lives for soviet power and are ready at any moment to give this life for the fatherland in this fatherland is attributed. to the number of persons who do not inspire confidence. i did not discredit myself in any way, and therefore a second time. i ask you to treat me as a living person to return me to the army and give me the opportunity to start my service. at first, at least as a squadron commander, kandiev, rokossovsky hair. just a letter, it's filled with pain and here there is no right to negative no accusations no complaints. there is simply nothing here. yes, because everything that is writt