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State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss (Crimean Tatars)

Top-secret decree of 11 May 1944, signed by Stalin, ordering all Crimean Tatars banished from Crimea.

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Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (1944) ordered by this decree, which accuses many Crimean Tatars of betraying the Motherland Primary record 2

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11 May 1944 State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss (Crimean Tatars)
11 May 1944 Joseph Stalin signed State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss (Crimean Tatars)

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The 1944 Soviet Deportation of Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan and the Urals as Special Settlers, Wschodnioznawstwo, 2024. Scholarship & press
signed by the chairman of the committee, Joseph Stalin
State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss, "On the Crimean Tatars", 11 May 1944, Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, University of Illinois, 11 May 1944. Primary record
During the Great Patriotic War, many Crimean Tatars betrayed the Motherland, deserting Red Army units that defended the Crimea and siding with the enemy, joining volunteer army units formed by the Germans to fight against the Red Army;
The special settlers will be allowed to take with them personal items, clothing, household objects, dishes and utensils, and up to 500 kilograms of food per family.

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