The building of the Federal Security Service in MoscowMOSCOW, Jan 18Slovak patriots in 1944, with weapons in their hands, often at the cost of their lives, helped Soviet intelligence officers and saboteurs to destroy the Nazis in the occupied territory of their country, follows from declassified archival materials published by the FSB of Russia. Tuesday marks 80 years since the creation of the famous 4th Directorate of the NKVD-NKGB of the USSR, which during the Great Patriotic War led the reconnaissance and sabotage work of the state security agencies in the rear of the German troops.The FSB spoke about the use of the experience of the war of 1812 against the Nazis Among them is a photocopy of a special report on the report of the «operational group» of the USSR People's Commissariat of State Security, which operated in Slovakia under the command of the illustrious State Security Major Viktor Karasev. This document dated September 29, 1944 reports that on August 4, 1944, the task force crossed the border of Poland without firing a shot and Slovakia. «Russian emigrants and local partisan detachments and groups … tried to push us against the Slovak units, spreading provocative rumors that we were Vlasovites. In this regard, the Slovaks pulled up artillery and tanks with the intention of firing artillery fire at us. Carefully conducted reconnaissance timely discovered the provocation, which made it possible for the task force to go to the Presov-Bardeva area and on August 6 to garrison in the town of Kryzha,» Karasev wrote.In Russia, documents about the US refusal to extradite the Japanese emperor were declassifiedAccording to him, in the first days of their stay in Slovakia, the local population was suspicious of Soviet fighters, «but a few days later, when the residents realized that the rumors spread about us were a provocation, the attitude towards us has changed.» “They began to help us with food, clothing, etc. Soon, Slovaks began to arrive to us with a request to accept them into the detachment,” Karasev noted. The task force continued to replenish its ranks at the expense of the local population. from the fled scattered Slovak groups, defeated by the Germans on the northern border of Slovakia, 20 combat detachments of 100 people each were formed within two days. >The FSB revealed new facts of Nazi brutal murders in the Tver region In early September 1944, a group of Major Vasatka of the Slovak army, together with Karasev’s fighters, fought between the settlements of Raslavice and Damyata, where they knocked out and burned 5 cars and a bus of the Nazis, the Soviet commander reported. “The same group defeated a large German convoy near Raslavice, destroying 9 vehicles and up to 100 Germans. Major Vasatka died in this battle,” Karasev reported. The special report also talked about the results of many sabotage committed by Soviet soldiers. They destroyed bridges, German armored vehicles, and blew up railway tracks.The FSB told how Japan united fascist white emigrants in ManchuriaViktor Karasev (1918-1991) from August 1941 commanded a fighter battalion, which was transformed into a partisan detachment in September of the same year. From October 1941, Karasev's detachment successfully operated behind enemy lines. On November 30, 1941, a combined detachment of 240 partisans (which included Karasev's unit) in the district center of Ugodsky Zavod in the Kaluga Region defeated the headquarters of the 12th Wehrmacht Army Corps, capturing important documents. In that battle, Karasev was seriously wounded, losing his arm. Subsequently, Marshal Georgy Zhukov called the Ugodsko-Zavodsk operation one of the outstanding partisan operations in the history of the Great Patriotic War. Since September 1942, Karasev commanded the Olympus special forces detachment of the NKVD, which later became a large international partisan unit named after Alexander Nevsky. It conducted 130 operations in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, covering more than 11 thousand kilometers with battles. More than 600 enemy soldiers and officers and collaborators were captured or destroyed, 56 echelons were derailed, 61 locomotives, 429 wagons, platforms and fuel tanks, 27 bridges, 8 institutions and warehouses were destroyed. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 5 In 1944, Viktor Karasev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Karasev’s deputy for intelligence was another legendary state security officer, Alexei Botyan, who was awarded the title of Hero of Russia in 2007 for his courage and heroism during the operation to save the Polish city of Krakow from destruction by the Nazis in January 1945.
