A holdover from the Cold War, the Spetsnaz are some of this country's elite special forces
..... merging two elite Cold War-era KGB special unitsCascade 
(Kaskad) and... [DOC] [TLE] Spetsnaz GRU - Wikipedia [PAR] GRU Spetsnaz are the elite military formations under the control of the military 
intelligence service GRU.