Soviet Storm. WW2 in the East - Secret Intelligence of the Red Army. Episode 15. Babich-Design

********************************** All series: ********************************** Stalin’s Soviet state was obsessed with secrecy, espionage and surveillance, and its security forces were highly competent in all the skills of the trade. But despite establishing networks of agents across Europe and the Far East in the 1930s, the Soviet Union was still caught off-guard by Hitler’s invasion in 1941. Thereafter, the GRU (army intelligence) and NKVD (KGB forerunner) went on to score a string of amazing intelligence coups in Tokyo, Washington, and even from the heart of Berlin. They would help to establish the mythology of Soviet espionage that became so familiar in the west during the Cold War. *********************************** The project “Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East“ depicts the most important events and battles of World War II. The task of the project is to il