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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.
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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.
The Azerbaijan energy trap: U.S. policy initiated by Clinton and ... by Jasper, William F. / The New American
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.
Big Ben by Fallows, James / Washington Monthly
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