Headquarters of the SMERSH (Soviet military counterintelligence service) in Střešovice district in Prague, Czech Republic. The notorious house served as the headquarters of the SMERSH of the 4th Ukrainian Front since the Red Army liberated Prague in May 1945. The house located in Dělostřelecká Street No 11 was the place where members of the Russian White emigration were interrogated and tortured before they were deported to Moscow and then sent to the Gulag.

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