![]() Coverage of these operations, and the celebrity status of special operations forces in state-controlled media, encouraged the public to identify many of these forces by name: SOBR, Alpha, Vityaz, Vympel. In post-Soviet Russia, spetsnaz became a colloquial term as special operations ( spetsoperatsiya), from police raids to military operations in internal conflicts, grew more common. A number of books about the Soviet military special forces, such as 1987's Spetsnaz: The Story Behind the Soviet SAS by defected GRU agent Viktor Suvorov, helped introduce the term to the Western public. Since then, stories about spetsnaz and their purportedly incredible prowess, from the serious to the highly questionable, have captivated the imagination of Russians. The Soviet public used to know very little about their country's special forces until many state secrets were disclosed under the glasnost ("openness") policy of Mikhail Gorbachev during the late 1980s. Spetsnaz later referred specifically to special ( spetsialnogo) purpose ( naznacheniya) or special operations (spetsoperatsiya spec ops) forces, and the word's widespread use is a relatively recent, post- perestroika development in Russian language. Regular forces assigned to special tasks were sometimes also referred to by terms such as Spetsnaz and osnaz. In addition, many Cheka and Internal Troops units (such as OMSDON and ODON) also included osobovo naznacheniya in their full names. They are general terms that were used for a variety of Soviet special operations ( spetsoperatsiya) units. In Ukrainian they are known as spetspryz ( спецприз), an abbreviation of viiska spetsiialnoho pryznachennia ( війська спеціяльного призначення). As syllabic acronyms they are not normally capitalized. The Russian abbreviations spetsnaz and osnaz are syllabic abbreviations of Soviet era Russian, for spetsialnogo naznacheniya and osobogo naznacheniya, both of which may be interpreted as "special purpose". ( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ![]() ![]() Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. ![]()
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