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08
JANUARY
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Decision on the "Legal status of special settlers"

On January 8, 1945, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted two closed resolutions “On the approval of the regulations on the special commandant's offices of the NKVD” and on the “Legal status of the special settlers”. The status of special settlers with a corresponding restriction of rights, primarily in the choice of place of residence, is assigned to the Soviet Germans.



Document number 3.199
Resolution SNK USSR № 35 "On the legal status of special settlers"
01/08/1945





Moscow Kremlin
dated January 8, 1945



 
The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR DECIDES:

1. Special settlers enjoy all the rights of citizens of the USSR, with the exception of the restrictions provided in this Resolution.

2. All healthy special settlers are required to perform socially useful tasks.
To this end, the local Soviets of the Workers' Deputies, in coordination with the NKVD agencies, will organize the labor settlement of special settlers in agriculture, industrial enterprises, construction sites, economic and cooperative organizations and institutions.

For violation of labor discipline, special immigrants are brought to justice in accordance with the laws in force.

3. Special settlers have no right to leave the borders of the resettlement area served by the office of the special commander without the permission of the commander of the office of the special commander of the NKVD. Unauthorized absenteeism outside the limits of the liquidation of the special service station served is considered an escape and carries criminal responsibility.

4. Special Immigrants: the heads of family or persons who replace them are obliged to inform the NKVD Special Commissariat of any change in the composition of the family (birth of a child, death of a family member, escape, etc. .) within 3 days.
5. Special settlers are obliged to strictly observe the regime and public order established for them at the resettlement sites and obey all orders from the offices of the special commander of the NKVD.

For violation of the regime and public order in places of resettlement, special settlers are subject to administrative sanctions in the form of a fine of up to 100 rubles. or arrest up to 5 days.

Deputy President of the Council of People's Commissaries of the USSR.
Chief of the Council of People's Commissaries of the USSR.
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Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "on the elimination of certain restrictions on the legal status of special settlers". July 5, 1954
Published: Collection of laws and regulations on the repression and rehabilitation of victims of political repression. Part II Kursk 1999. p. 263-264.

Number 20
No. 1439-649c
As a result of the further consolidation of the Soviet social and state system and given that at present the majority of special settlers were evicted to the areas of the Soviet Socialist Republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Komi, Bashkir and Yakutsk Socialist Republics Autonomous Soviets, Altai, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk, Kemerovo, Novoslov, and Omsk, Sverdlovsk and other regions, who worked in agriculture and industry, joined the economic and cultural life and settled in new places of residence, and felt that In connection with this, the application of existing restrictions on legal status is not necessary, the Council of Ministers of the USSR decides:

1. Grant people who are registered in special settlements engaged in socially useful work the right to reside in a region, territory, republic and certain official business trips: the right of free movement to any part of the country in general.
Do not extend this right to people from the number of special settlers who do not perform socially useful work, violate the regime and public order in places of settlement.

2. To change the existing order, establish a personal appearance for the special settlers to register in the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR once a year. Persons who change their place of permanent residence are obliged to withdraw from the registration in special kommandaturu and register in the new place of residence in the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.
3. To deregister the children of special settlers under the age of 16, including in the bodies of the Ministry of the Interior of the USSR, to free them from administrative supervision and not to apply the restrictions established for the special settlers.

4. Cancel the registration of special settlements of children over 16 who have been accepted and sent to educational institutions, to allow them to travel to their places of study anywhere in the country.

5. Abolish the use of the fine and arrest, as an administrative measure of punishment for special settlers, for the violation of the regime in places of settlement.
6. To compel the Councils of Ministers of the Union and the autonomous republics, the executive committees of the regional and regional Soviets of the Workers' Deputies to intensify the political work among the special settlers, engaging them in an active social and political life . Special settlers, like other workers, must participate in unions, Komsomol organizations, as well as be encouraged and rewarded for job success and used on the job according to their education and specialty.

7. This resolution does not apply to persons convicted of particularly dangerous state crimes and refers to a reference to an agreement after serving its sentence, as well as to the categories of special settlers listed in the Appendix [52]
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President of the Council of Ministers of the USSR 
G. Malenkov
Head of the Council of Ministers of the USSR 
A. Korobov
51 This resolution was voted on by a survey of members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU and issued as a resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU of July 5, 1954 (Prot. No. 71, paragraph 12) "On the elimination of certain restrictions on the legal status of special settlers. " A commission for the consideration of the Presidium of the Central Committee was presented by a commission composed of M.A. Suslova, SN Kruglova, KP Gorshenina, RA Rudenko and AL Grandfather In the text of the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU, in contrast to the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, there are two additional points of the following content:
"6. Establish that persons who are in a special settlement, for an unauthorized departure (escape) from the place of compulsory settlement are responsible under Part 1 of art. 82 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR and the corresponding articles of the Penal Code of other Republics of the Union. In this regard, approve the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR that repeals the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 26, 1948 "On criminal responsibility for escape from places of compulsory and permanent settlement of expelled persons to remote areas of the Soviet Union during the Patriotic War. "
"9. To consider as invalid the effect of paragraphs 3, 4 and the second part of paragraph 5 of the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 35 of January 8, 45, on the legal status of special settlers. In this regard, cancel the relevant paragraphs of the Regulation on the Special Commissioners of the NKVD, approved by the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 34-14s of January 8, 1945. See also Section III, No. 22
52 The appendix contains the following categories of special settlers who were not affected by the decree: Ukrainian nationalists, members of the OUN - UPA, the kulaks and their families expelled from the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR in 1944-1952; nationalists and kulaks with their families, expelled from the RSS of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the Byelorussian SSR and the Pskov Region in 1945-1952; "Andersovtsy" and members of their families, expelled from the RSS of Lithuania, the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus in 1951; The rebels, expelled from the RSS of Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia and Estonia, the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus in 1951. See also documents III and 23 of section III.


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