THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1826, sig. 109-5/54

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44a - 5 Supreme Council of the Soviet Union had been appointed and awarded with the Order of the Red Armce, to be leader of the General Partisan Movement of Crimea. It bears the name "Old Partisans", a traditional designation for guerrillas of 1918/20, who were in the fight against the Wrangel army. Illegal A special form of organization of the Parti- Kampforga- sanen movement represents the illegal fighting organization of NKVD in the NKWD in Moscow. It was formed in the event of a Moscow occupation of Moscow by German troops and has the mission to carry out sabotage and terrorist acts. In the individual city districts, start-ups have been set up in private homes, in which every combat force can be supplied with everything it needs for its purposes. Weapons, explosives, poisons, German and Russian money as well as German Wehrmacht uniforms have been provided. In Vjazma, a Soviet army order was found, which ordered the formation of barrier units in the Red Army in order to prevent desertifications that often occur in the red army. In this order, which was issued by the "Hauptquartier des Oberkommandos" and signed with Stalin-Shapozhniko, it is stated that there is a great deal of elcmente in the Soviet Schützendivisions, which throw away the weapons at a serious pressure of the German troops and insporate their comrades to the task of resistance. The commanders and commissioners are accused of not having their units firmly in their hands. For this reason, it is ordered that in each 33869 gunmen's division of reliable fighters a barrier department in the strength of a battalion - speaking of a company on a regiment - is formed and subordinated to the divisional command. The task of the barrier department is the immediate support of the commander in the manufacture