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Resolution of 21 August 1937 on the eviction of the Korean population

Joint resolution of the Soviet government and the Party's Central Committee ordering Koreans out of the border districts of the Far East.

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Deportation of the Koreans of the Soviet Far East (1937) ordered by this resolution, whose stated reason was to prevent Japanese espionage Scholarship & press 1 2

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21 Aug 1937 Resolution of 21 August 1937 on the eviction of the Korean population
21 Aug 1937 Joseph Stalin signed Resolution of 21 August 1937 on the eviction of the Korean population

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Tragic page of the history of the Korean people (with the text of the resolution of 21 August 1937), Qazaqstan tarihy (e-history.kz), 1 Sep 2017. Scholarship & press
Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) I. Stalin
To prevent the penetration of Japanese espionage into the Far Eastern Territory, the following measures should be taken:
To proceed immediately to the eviction and finish by January 1, 1938.
Do not obstruct resettled Koreans to leave if they wish to go abroad, allowing a simplified procedure for crossing the border.
Increase the number of border troops by 3 thousand people. To consolidate the protection of the border in the areas from which the Koreans are resettled.
Legal help to ethnic Koreans from the former Soviet republics (ADC Memorial), Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial, Nov 2010. Scholarship & press
On September 28, 1937 the Sovnarkom of the USSR (parliament) approved complementary decree No 1647-377cc “on deportation of the Koreans from the territory of the Far East region,” which in fact defined the fate of all Koreans from the territory of the whole country.
Even though part of the Koreans tried to resist deportation, any escape abroad was impossible – the border guarding was very strong.

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