The department recalled that on February 2, it will be 80 years since the defeat of the Nazi troops in the Stalingrad region by Soviet troops, which marked the beginning of a radical turning point in the entire Second World War.

In July-November 1942, the Red Army managed to force the enemy to get bogged down in defensive battles for Stalingrad, and by November 22, Soviet troops began to compress the German army into an encirclement ring.

Together with units of the Red Army, state security officers participated in reconnaissance and caught enemy spies and saboteurs.

As the FSB notes, the Nazis, faced with stubborn resistance from the Soviet troops, took out their anger on defenseless residents, breaking into their homes and taking things.

They sent the stolen valuables by parcels to Germany.

So, the head of the NKVD Directorate for the Stalingrad region A.I.

On February 20, 1943, Voronin reported in a certificate that in October 1942 in Stalingrad, the invaders robbed the apartment of Georgy Zotov, a worker at the Krasny Oktyabr plant.

His clothes, food, utensils and furniture were taken from him.

Zotov himself, along with his mother, wife and two children, was shot.

Immediately after the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Stalingrad UNKVD, together with the Smersh counterintelligence authorities, began work on checking prisoners of war, in the framework of which information was collected about the territories mined by the Germans.

As it turned out, the city and its environs were littered with mines, and the enemy destroyed all the documents for the minefields and sites they had established.

The head of the regional department of the NKVD, Voronin, noted that the forces of the task force, through interrogations and through recruited agents, processed 50 thousand prisoners of war, who told about the location of the minefields.

As a result of interrogations, about 300 minefields and sites were revealed, in which up to 150 thousand anti-tank and anti-personnel mines were laid.

The Directorate of the People's Commissariat of State Security identified the main perpetrators of the atrocities, among them was Major General Paul Lehning, who headed the German military commandant's office in Stalingrad.

He was also the organizer of robberies and bullying of Soviet citizens.