Concept

Special settlement

The Soviet status of forced residence under NKVD watch, to which the deported peoples were assigned.

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Soviet government 8 Jan 1945 Scholarship & press 3 4
The regime dates from 1929-31; the resolution of 8 January 1945 codified it.

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Report of L. B. Beria to Stalin, Molotov and Malenkov, July 1944 (excerpt, translated by James von Geldern), Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, University of Illinois, Jul 1944. Primary record
429 Special NKVD Commendants have been created to watch over the living regime of the special settlers, to prevent fugitives from fleeing, to ensure the Cheka-like efficiency of serving and aiding the settler families to be quickly set up in their homes.
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.
The 1944 Soviet Deportation of Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan and the Urals as Special Settlers, Wschodnioznawstwo, 2024. Scholarship & press
These restrictions were streamlined into a single codified resolution by the SNK (Council of People’s Commissariats) on 8 I 1945.
The Deportation and Fate of the Crimean Tatars, International Committee for Crimea (paper for the Association for the Study of Nationalities, April 2000), Apr 2000. Scholarship & press
The Soviet government created the special settlement regime during the collectivization of agriculture during 1929-1931.

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