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[Hopkins 009]

What is the main difference between SMERSH and SPECTRE?

[MkB]

To cut it short: SMERSH is a soviet secret service, aiming at eliminating enemy spies. SPECTRE is a private organisation, aiming at making money, whatever it takes.

[Blonde Bond]

Also SMERSH is truth based (if not changed somewhat to serve the fiction world of James Bond)



From wikipedia;

SMERt' SHpionam, Russ: СМЕРть Шпионам, Eng: Death to Spies) were the counter-intelligence departments in the Soviet Army created in 1943

Its threefold purpose was:

1. securing the Red Army's operational rear from partisans, saboteurs, and spies
2. investigating and arresting conspirators and mutineers, "traitors, deserters, spies, and criminal elements" at the combat front, and
3. supporting general staff strategic operations.


Whereas SPECTRE is purely fictional organization, which was dedicated to everything, that the poster above me already said.

Edited by Blonde Bond, 05 December 2007 - 01:43 AM.

[Stuclark]

In Bond's world, SPECTRE was formed after SMERSH was disbanded / morphed into another Soviet organisation.

SPECTRE was the brainchild of Ernst Stavro Bloefeld who first gets mentioned in Thunderball and then again in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.