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

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1941–1945

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

The State Defense Committee, involved in Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) and Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (1944).

Joseph Stalin

The State Defense Committee, headed by Joseph Stalin.

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