Lavrentii Beriia: o chem molchalo Sovinformbiuro - Ulybysheva Marina Alekseevna

When in November 1938 Lavrentiy Beria was appointed head of the NKVD of the USSR, the "legacy" he inherited from the previous narcotics of the interior affairs Nikolai Yezhov could hardly be called "rich". Many members of the foreign intelligence and counterintelligence officers were repressed and the remaining personnel did not meet the time requirements. Everyone understood that the Second World War was inevitable. And the Soviet Union was not ready for it. In the 2.5 pre-war years, Lawrence Beria managed to significantly improve the combat capability of the intelligence and counterintelligence agencies. Due to this, for example, before the outbreak of World War II, Germany was not able to establish the exact number and locations of the Red Army units and units. And during the war itself, Soviet scouts and counterintelligence officers won a series of brilliant victories over the special services not only germany and Japan, but also the countries that became enemies of the USSR during the Cold War - the United States and Great Britain.