the information received from von bothman was really important. defeat the ussr if the war lasted 2 or 3 months, but if they did not during this time. take over leningrad. the germans needed a blitz shout, but it failed already in the first days of the battles. there were fierce battles on the territory of belarus. from the memoirs of pavel sudoplatov, one of the leaders of the ussr foreign intelligence service. for us, who knew that the germans had problems with supplying the army, stalin’s directive to stand to the end in ’41 and ’42, and to stop the enemy at any cost, turned out to be natural and reasonable. the germans faced the prospect of a protracted war. at the end of june '41 , the first security officers also went to the german rear. special forces. they were formed literally in the field in mogilev, where on the night of june 25, together with the belarusian government, the people's commissariat of state security of the republic moved. on the first day of the war , a special one was formed under the people's commissariat of internal aff