To deport Ukrainians to the distant regions of the USSR
Sunday, May 16th, 2010Top secret
Order No. 0078/42 22 June 1944
The People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs and the People’s Commissariat of Defense of the USSR
Moscow
The undercover intelligence discovered: the last time in Ukraine, particularly in the region of Kyiv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Rivne and in other regions, there is obvious hostile atmosphere against the Red Army and Soviet government. In some districts and regions Ukrainian people opposes to exercise the events of party and of government about the restoration of kolkhozes and (forced) delivery the meal for the needs of the Red Army. To disrupt the construction of collective farms, they kill cattle. To disrupt the food supply for the Red Army, they bury the bread in the ground. In many regions of Ukraine the hostile elements consisted mostly of people seeking refuge from the mobilization to Red Army, were organized in the “green” woods groups that explode and attack military convoys and small military units, as well as they are murdering the representatives of local soviet government. Some Red Army soldiers and commanders fell under the influence of the semi-fascist and Ukrainian soldiers mobilized by the Red Army in the liberated regions of Ukraine have begun to degrade and to call on enemy.
What is written above shows that the Ukrainian population has been on the path of sabotage against the Red Army and Soviet power and sought to return the German occupiers. Therefore, to eliminate and control the Red Army soldiers mobilized and commanders of the liberated areas of Ukraine, I order:
1. To deport all Ukrainians who lived under German occupation to the distant regions of the USSR.
2. Run the expulsion:
a) Above all, Ukrainians who have worked and served for the Germans;
b) Expel the rest of the Ukrainians, who are familiar with life during the German occupation;
c) begin deportation after when the harvest will be delivered to the State for the purposes of the Red Army;
d) expulsion should be carried out only at night and suddenly, to prevent the cases of escape, and not introduce them to family members who are in the Red Army.
3. Establish control over the soldiers of the Red Army and the commanders from the occupied areas:
a) create special files for each person in the responsible departments;
b) check all the letters not by censorship but by a special department;
c) attach one undercover officer for 5 commanders and soldiers.
4. 4. To fight against the Anti-Soviet bandits, 12th and 25th punitive divisions of NKVD should be transferred.
To announce this order down to the level of regiment commanders inclusive.
The People’s Commissioner for Internal Affairs of the USSR, Beria
Deputy Commissioner of the popular defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov
True: 4th Department Head colonel (Fedorov)
On materials of Chuev F.: Soldiers of the Empire: Interviews. Memoirs. Documents. – Moscow, 1998



