Organization

State Defense Committee

Emergency body that ran the Soviet war effort from 1941; Stalin chaired it.

3 links, 1 backed by primary records. 5 more in open data

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Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) issued Decree No. 5073 on 31 January 1944 Scholarship & press 2
Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (1944) issued Decree No. 5859ss on 11 May 1944 Primary record 3

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The 1944 Soviet Deportation of Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan and the Urals as Special Settlers, Wschodnioznawstwo, 2024. Scholarship & press
It only awaited final approval by Stalin, the chairman of the GKO
Operation "Lentil": the history of one of the most brutal deportations in the USSR, Qalam, 20 Feb 2026. Scholarship & press
On the last day of January 1944, under the top secret classification, the State Defense Committee issued Decree No. 5073, titled ‘On Measures for the Placement of Special Settlers within the Kazakh and Kyrgyz SSRs’.
The decree made no explicit mention of Chechens or Ingush, referring instead to the resettlement of 400,000 ‘special settlers’ to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Kazakh SSR) and 90,000 to the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kyrgyz SSR).
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
State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss

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