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Lavrentiy Beria

Soviet security chief; People's Commissar of Internal Affairs during the wartime deportations.

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Beria’s reports to Stalin and the State Defense Committee in 1944 are among the Soviet documents this story quotes.

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Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) approved the instructions on 29 January 1944 Scholarship & press 2
Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (1944) named in the decree as the one to complete the resettlement by 1 June 1944 Primary record 3

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Beria to the State Defense Committee, 7 March 1944 (excerpt, translated by James von Geldern), Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, University of Illinois, 7 Mar 1944. Primary record
People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR
Operation "Lentil": the history of one of the most brutal deportations in the USSR, Qalam, 20 Feb 2026. Scholarship & press
On 29 January , the People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs, Lavrentiy Beria approved the ‘Instructions on the Procedure for the Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush’.
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
1. All Tatars are to be banished from the territory of the Crimea and resettled permanently as special settlers in the regions of the Uzbek SSR. The resettlement will be assigned to the Soviet NKVD. The Soviet NKVD (comrade Beria) is to complete the resettlement by 1 June 1944.

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