The FSB declassified documents dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the Smersh counterintelligence officer Vadis

On March 23, the Federal Security Service (FSB) published archival documents dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet military counterintelligence officer Alexander Vadis.

The future counterintelligence officer was born on March 23, 1906 in the village of Tripolye, Tripolsky volost, Kiev province, and came from a peasant family. He graduated from three classes of the Kiev Gymnasium in 1918, after which he was left homeless amid the First World War and the Civil War. He was homeless from 1918 to 1920.

Then, as part of the Soviet government's campaign to combat child homelessness, he was assigned to provide and supply the organs and troops of the All-Russian Emergency Commission under the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) of the RSFSR.

"So, in 1920-1922, A.A. Vadis became a pupil of the 2nd guard battalion at the Central Board of the Donbass Coal Industry. After the battalion was disbanded, he had to make do with odd jobs, in 1923-1924 he worked as a farmhand for kulaks in the village of Konyushevka in the Lipovetsky district of the Vinnytsia region," the FSB said.

Since 1928, he volunteered in the Red Army, at the same time he was accepted as a member of the CPSU(b).

From the first days of the Great Patriotic War. In March 1943, he was appointed head of the Smersh Counterintelligence Directorate of the Central Front. In the same year, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree. From October 1943 to February 1944, he was the head of the UKR "Smersh" of the Belorussian Front.

"During Comrade Vadis' stay on the Central Front since May 20, 1943, 2,470 people of counterrevolutionary elements — traitors to the Motherland, saboteurs and the like - were removed from the front, 178 of them were exposed as German spies," the materials say.

On April 25, 1944, he was awarded the military rank of Lieutenant General.

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