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In my search for a spetsnaz shovel and video showing the same I was given an e-mail by someone from the systema forum which had a link www.spetsnaz-gru.com. Does anyone know who this Alexander Popov is? His biography states the following:
I, Alexander Popov, welcome you. I am the President of Spetsnaz Training Association (nongovernmental) and the Chief Expert in knife and hand-to-hand combat in the version of Spetsnaz GRU (or Special Forces of the MAIN INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT of the General Staff of the Russian (former Soviet) Army).
The aim of this serial is to introduce amateurs of fighting arts to the most effective and deadly system of hand-to-hand combat of today that is not known to the public at large or even to a close circle of specialists.
This unique system was developed in 20-30-th of the XX century in Russia on the base of the best fighting systems of the East and the West. It was successfully tested during the Second World War.
In 1943 the Soviet Army started a counter-offensive against the fascist invaders and a need arose to purge liberated territories from enemy's agents, reconnaissance/saboteur groups, remains of defeated German troops, bandit units etc. On 19-th of April, 1943 by order of Stalin SMERSH, the Chief Counter-Intelligence Department for People's Defense Commissariat of the USSR, was set up.
The counter-intelligence SMERSH was under Stalin's personal command and was not a part of the GRU. However, the most of SMERSH investigating specialists were taken from GRU Special Force units. Such a specialist-investigator, called a "wolf-hound" in the slang, had not only to master the hand-to-hand technique, to use any available thing as a weapon, to fire with both hands (such method of firing is called "Macedonian style fire"). He must be able to catch alive a well-armed, specially trained and physically strong fighter. To do that, it was necessary to master such a fighting system that would surpass all existing fighting systems.
Here we can quote some figures. Only in 1943 "wolf-hounds" investigators neutralized and arrested 80.296 hostile agents, saboteurs, bandits, and other criminal elements at liberated territories.
After the end of the Second World War the counter-intelligence SMERSH was disbanded and the most of its workers came back to the GRU.
After Stalin's death the new leadership of this country started to conduct their reforms in the Soviet Army. Training of universal super-fighters seemed to be a useless and even a dangerous thing, therefore the special units of the GRU were disbanded. Instead of them formations of the Soviet Army built up their own units - companies, later - battalions and brigades of special forces where the well-known SAMBO system (self-defense without weapons) was taught as a method of hand-to-hand combat.
So, the most perfect system was neglected for a very long time. By now almost all of the famous cohort of investigating "wolf-hounds" are not alive. But some of them spread the knowledge among their learners. I had the luck to be a learner of one of the "wolf-hounds". My coach, even in his old age, could easily overpower a few young and well-trained fighters of "the black belt" level at least.
I hope that all amateurs, regardless of their level of training, will like this serial.
Alexander Popov
I, Alexander Popov, welcome you. I am the President of Spetsnaz Training Association (nongovernmental) and the Chief Expert in knife and hand-to-hand combat in the version of Spetsnaz GRU (or Special Forces of the MAIN INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT of the General Staff of the Russian (former Soviet) Army).
The aim of this serial is to introduce amateurs of fighting arts to the most effective and deadly system of hand-to-hand combat of today that is not known to the public at large or even to a close circle of specialists.
This unique system was developed in 20-30-th of the XX century in Russia on the base of the best fighting systems of the East and the West. It was successfully tested during the Second World War.
In 1943 the Soviet Army started a counter-offensive against the fascist invaders and a need arose to purge liberated territories from enemy's agents, reconnaissance/saboteur groups, remains of defeated German troops, bandit units etc. On 19-th of April, 1943 by order of Stalin SMERSH, the Chief Counter-Intelligence Department for People's Defense Commissariat of the USSR, was set up.
The counter-intelligence SMERSH was under Stalin's personal command and was not a part of the GRU. However, the most of SMERSH investigating specialists were taken from GRU Special Force units. Such a specialist-investigator, called a "wolf-hound" in the slang, had not only to master the hand-to-hand technique, to use any available thing as a weapon, to fire with both hands (such method of firing is called "Macedonian style fire"). He must be able to catch alive a well-armed, specially trained and physically strong fighter. To do that, it was necessary to master such a fighting system that would surpass all existing fighting systems.
Here we can quote some figures. Only in 1943 "wolf-hounds" investigators neutralized and arrested 80.296 hostile agents, saboteurs, bandits, and other criminal elements at liberated territories.
After the end of the Second World War the counter-intelligence SMERSH was disbanded and the most of its workers came back to the GRU.
After Stalin's death the new leadership of this country started to conduct their reforms in the Soviet Army. Training of universal super-fighters seemed to be a useless and even a dangerous thing, therefore the special units of the GRU were disbanded. Instead of them formations of the Soviet Army built up their own units - companies, later - battalions and brigades of special forces where the well-known SAMBO system (self-defense without weapons) was taught as a method of hand-to-hand combat.
So, the most perfect system was neglected for a very long time. By now almost all of the famous cohort of investigating "wolf-hounds" are not alive. But some of them spread the knowledge among their learners. I had the luck to be a learner of one of the "wolf-hounds". My coach, even in his old age, could easily overpower a few young and well-trained fighters of "the black belt" level at least.
I hope that all amateurs, regardless of their level of training, will like this serial.
Alexander Popov