The special groups of the NKVD for fighting against nationalists (Russian: Специальные группы НКВД по борьбе с националистами)[1] were units set up by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union mainly in territories annexed by the USSR before the German-Soviet war due to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in particular they fought against the OUN and UPA in Ukraine (mostly Western), the Forest Brothers, in the Baltic states and against the Belarusian Black Cats, a special unit of the Schutzstaffel.[2] They were also known as the Agent-Combat Groups (ABG), legend groups, false UPA detachments and the NKVD units dressed as UPA fighters.
After the NKVD reorganisation in 1946, the special groups kept on operating under the management of its successors, both the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and Ministry of State Security (NKGB) of the Soviet Union.
The special groups of the NKVD were operating in the Ukrainian SSR for ten years, since 1944 up to 1953.[3] During that time, thousands of people were captured, arrested and killed by them.[4][5]
^The special groups of the NKVD are in the fight with nationalists, Ch. 4. The great obfuscated war - 2. // Спецгруппы НКВД в борьбе с националистами - Гл.4, Великая оболганная война-2, ISBN 9785699256228 (in Russian)
^Belarusian Black Cats. Ukrainian magazine "Personnel Plus", Issue 43, 1 November 2011 // Білоруські «чорні коти» / Персонал Плюс - №43 (448) 26 жовтня - 1 листопада 2011 року(in Ukrainian)
^The Insurgent Army: Tactics of the struggle. MILITARY LITERATURE - Military Thought. S.N. Tkachenko // ВОЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА - Военная мысль. Ткаченко С.Н. Повстанческая армия: тактика борьбы(in Russian)
^Vampires and werewolves in official documents. The Way of Victory. 2 October 1993. Ivan Bilas [uk] // Білас. Упирі та перевертні в офіційних документах - Шлях перемоги. — 1993. 2 жовтня.(in Ukrainian)
^The agent-combat special groups of the NKVD-MVD-NKDB-MDB. 2008. I. Antoniuk // Антонюк Я. - Агентурно-бойові спецгрупи НКВС-МВС-НКДБ-МДБ (2008)(in Ukrainian)
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