PROTECTION OF PUBLIC ORDER BY THE EXTERNAL POLICE SERVICE IN THE USSR IN THE FIRST POST-WAR YEARS (1945-1949)
The article analyzes how the protection of public order was carried out in the conditions of the transition of Soviet society to a peaceful life after the end of the Great Patriotic War. The main tasks of the external police service, internal affairs bodies and law enforcement troops are shown. Excerpts from the main regulatory legal acts defining the activities for the protection of public order in the first post-war years are given.