{"id":176,"date":"2014-02-09T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2014-02-09T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T21:14:10","slug":"about-the-preparation-of-deportation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/archive-documents\/about-the-preparation-of-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Preparation of Deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>TOP SECRET<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>State Defense Committee <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The GKO\u2019s decree \u2116 5074ss, January 31, 1944 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Kremlin, Moscow <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\">State Defense Committee decided: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Oblige the Narkomzem (<em>Land Commissariat<\/em>) of the USSR (comrade Andreev) Narkommyasomolprom (<em>Commissariat of Meat and Milk industry<\/em>) of the USSR (comrade Smirnov), Narkomsovkhozov (<em>Commissariat of collective farms<\/em>) of the USSR (comrade Lobanov) and Narkomzag (<em>Commissariat of procurements<\/em>) (comrade Subbotin) to take at the North Caucasus from the special settlers, livestock and agricultural products in the places and the dates agreed upon with the NKVD USSR, with the issuance of the exchange receipts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Perform adoption of the entire property, as well as calculations on this property with special settlers in accordance with the decision of People\u2019s Commissars of the USSR from October 14, 1943 \u2116 1118-842ss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oblige the People\u2019s Commissariat of the USSR, Narkommyasomolprom USSR, Narkomzag and Narkomsovhozov USSR to prepare and send in dates, agreed with the NKVD, special groups with a sufficient number of workers and forms of exchange receipts on registration of receiving cattle and agricultural products from the special settlers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2.<\/strong> Send to the North Caucasus for the organization and management of taking livestock, agricultural products and other property from special settlers the commission of SNK as follows: Chairman \u2013 Vice-Chairman of People\u2019s Commissars of the RSFSR comrade Gritsenko and representatives: from the People\u2019s Commissariat of the USSR \u2013 Deputy People\u2019s Commissar comrade Penzin, from Narkommyasomolprom \u2013 member of the board comrade Nadyarnyh, from Narkomsovhozov USSR \u2013 Deputy People\u2019s Commissar comrade Kabanov, from Narkomzag \u2013 member of the board comrade Pustovalov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>3.<\/strong> Oblige NKPS (comrade Kaganovich) to organize transportation of special settlers from the Northern Caucasus in the Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR, form for this purpose special trains from the heating and equipped for human transport wagons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The number of trains, deadlines for wagons giving, loading and unloading is at the request of the NKVD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Payments for transportation are at the rate of transport of prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oblige NKPS and TsUPVOSO (comrade Khrulev) to ensure the moving of trains to their destination on the rights of the military ones, with special dispatch to monitor their movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>4.<\/strong> Oblige Narkomtorg (<em>People\u2019s Commissariat of Trade<\/em>) of the USSR, under the personal responsibility of comrade Lyubimov, to ensure the supply of hot food and boiling water for passing trains with special settlers, in accordance with the schedule of trains movement, composed by the NKVD of the USSR and the People\u2019s Commissariat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Send, not later than 1 February, the senior representatives of Narkomtorg to the places on the path of movement of trains to carry out the organizational and preparatory work and check the preparedness of nutritional items and railway canteens to service trains with special settlers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>5.<\/strong> Oblige the People\u2019s Commissariat of the USSR, under the personal responsibility of comrade Miterev, to ensure the provision for each train with special settlers, in time according with coordination with the NKVD, one doctor and two nurses with the stock of medicines and sanitation items, and also to prepare the points of sanitary treatment and insulators of the Narkomzdrav (<em>People\u2019s Commissariat of Health<\/em>) on the path of the trains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>6.<\/strong> Oblige the General Directorate of State Material Reserves of the USSR under the Sovnarkom of the USSR (comrade Danchenko) to de-reserve from the state reserve 4000 tons of gasoline for the NKVD, 500 tons of gasoline for the SNK of the Kazakh SSR, and 150 tons for SNK Kirghizia for the special work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oblige Glavneftesnab (the Main Oil Supply service) under the Sovnarkom of the USSR (comrade Shirokov) in agreement with the NKVD, SNK of Kazakh SSR and SNK of Kirghiz SSR to ship gasoline to the points by special-purpose tanks in time \u2013 for the NKVD during February 1944 and for the SNK of Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR \u2013 until February 15, 1944<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>7.<\/strong> Oblige the People\u2019s Commissariat of the USSR (comrade Zverev) to release advance of $ 80 million rubles for the special work in February 1944 for NKVD from the reserve Sovnarkom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oblige the People\u2019s Commissariat of the USSR (comrade Zverev), and the NKVD (comrade Chernyshov) to submit in 5-day period to the People\u2019s Commissars of the USSR the joint proposal for an additional appropriation of funds for special work to the NKVD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>8.<\/strong> Oblige the People\u2019s Commissariat of the USSR (comrade Andreev) to transfer to the NKVD for cavalry units of militia, 350 horses, fit for military service, received from the special settlers in the North Caucasus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Vice Chairman of the National Defense Molotov <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Sent to comrades Molotov, Malenkov, Beria, Voznesensky, Skvortsov, Undasynov, Bogdanov, Vagov, Kulatov, Pchelkin, Andreev, Benediktov, Kosygin, Smirnov, Lobanov, Subbotin, Gritsenko, Chadayev \u2013 all: Shamberg, Popov, Shatalin, Zverev, Genzin, Nadyarnyh, Kabanov (People\u2019s Commissariat of State farms), Pustovalov, Kaganovich, Khrushchev, Izmailov, Golubev, Lyubimov, Miterev, Danchenko, Shirokov, Sokolov, Chernyshov \u2013 respectively. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">27 Mernilov \u2013 NKGB \u2013 everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">RTsHIDNI. F.644. Op.1. D.200. L.13-15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*** <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>State Defense Committee <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">February 17, 1944<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>To comrade Stalin <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><\/strong>Preparation of the operation for eviction of Chechens and Ingushs finishes. After clarification, on 459 486 people to resettle are taken on the accountability, including those living in areas of Dagestan bordering with Chechnya-Ingushetia, and in Vladikavkaz city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Given the scale of the operation and feature of the mountains, it was decided to conduct evictions (including boarding of people in the trains) during 8 days, when during the first 3 days the operation will be completed in the whole lowlands and pediments, and partly on some settlements in mountain areas, covering more than 300 thousand people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the remaining 4 days, the eviction of all mountain areas will be carried out, covering the remaining 150 thousand people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mountain areas will be blocked in advance\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In particular, in the eviction 6-7,000 Dagestanis, and 3,000 Ossetians from collective and state farms activists of Dagestan and North Ossetia districts, adjacent to Chechnya-Ingushetia, as well as rural activists among the Russians, in those areas where there are population, will participate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Given the seriousness of the operation, please allow me to remain in place until the operation is complete, at least in general, i.e. up to 26-27 February, 1944<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>L. Beria <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">GARF. F.9401. Op.2. D.64. L.167 &#8211; 167 \u043e\u0431.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-179\" alt=\"preparation-17feb1944\" src=\"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/preparation-17feb1944.jpg\" width=\"503\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/preparation-17feb1944.jpg 503w, http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/preparation-17feb1944-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>*** <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>State Defense Committee <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">February 22, 1944<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>To comrade Stalin <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For a successful operation to evict the Chechens and Ingushs, following your instructions, in addition to KGB and troop activities the following is carried out:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was reported to the chairman of People\u2019s Commissars of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic Molaev about the government\u2019s decision to evict the Chechens and the Ingushs and about the motives which are underlay this decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Molaev was in tears after my message, but pulled himself together and promised to fulfill all the tasks that he will be given in connection with the eviction. After it, in Grozny, in cooperation with him, nine executives from the Chechens and Ingushs have been identified and convened, who were informed about the eviction of Chechens and the Ingushs and the reasons for the eviction\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">40 Party and Soviet workers from the Chechens and Ingushs were attached by us to the 24 districts with the task to select from local activists 2-3 people for propaganda for each locality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The conversation with the most influential in the Chechen-Ingushetia senior clerics B. Arsanov, A.-G. Yandarov and A. Gaysumov was conducted, they were called to give the support through the mullahs and other local authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2026 Eviction begins from dawn on February 23, this year, it was assumed to cordon off the regions to prevent the exit of the population from the territory of settlements. Population will be invited to the gathering, part of the gathering will be released for collecting things, and the rest will be disarmed and taken to places of loading. I believe that the operation to evict the Chechens and Ingushs will be held successfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Beria <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">GARF. F.R-9401. Op.2. D.64. L.166.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOP SECRET State Defense Committee The GKO\u2019s decree \u2116 5074ss, January 31, 1944 The Kremlin, Moscow State Defense Committee decided: 1. Oblige the Narkomzem (Land Commissariat) of the USSR (comrade Andreev) Narkommyasomolprom (Commissariat of Meat and Milk industry) of the USSR (comrade Smirnov), Narkomsovkhozov (Commissariat of collective farms) of the USSR (comrade Lobanov) and Narkomzag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/181"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldchechnyaday.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}