Keyword: «party structures»

The article discusses two interconnected issues related to the activities of the militia in the period after the end of the Great Patriotic War in the USSR (1945-1953). The first part deals with the relationship between the internal affairs bodies and local party organizations that criticized militia for unsatisfactory fight against crime. One of the most important explanations for this situation was an acute personnel problem that had developed due to well-known reasons (the war factor). The second part of the article is devoted to this problem.