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Smersh

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Smersh
acronym for Smert Shpionam (Death to Spies), a section of the KGB. [EB, IX: 283]
See : Spying


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Later, James Bond's SMERSH opponents were straightforward Soviet agents, servants of an enemy whose chief products were heavy industrial planning, falsified crop reports, and mass murder.
It is uncertain which of the branches of the Soviet secret police he served in his early days-NKVD, NKGB, SMERSH --but each played a major role in some of the bloodiest atrocities and mass murders in human history.
Bradlee also passes along a revealing joke: the Post's in-house acronym SMERSH, which stood for stories on "Science, Medicine, Education, Religion, and all that Shit.
 
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