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Supreme Soviet of the USSR

The highest legislative body of the Soviet Union; its Presidium issued decrees between sessions.

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  1. 28 Aug 1941 Supreme Soviet of the USSR signed into law Decree of 28 August 1941 on the Germans of the Volga region
  2. 7 Mar 1944 Supreme Soviet of the USSR signed into law Presidium decree of 7 March 1944 liquidating the Chechen-Ingush republic
  3. 26 Nov 1948 Supreme Soviet of the USSR signed into law Presidium decree of 26 November 1948 on escape from places of settlement
  4. 14 Nov 1989 Supreme Soviet of the USSR signed into law Declaration of the USSR Supreme Soviet of 14 November 1989
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  1. Our Memory Is the Future: The Soviet Experience and Remembrance of the August 1941 Deportation of Volga Germans, volgagermans.org (talk given in Portland, 25 October 2008), 25 Oct 2008. Scholarship & press
    The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued Ukaz (Decree) No. 21-160, ordering the deportation of the Volga Germans to special settlements in Kazakhstan and Siberia
    The decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “Concerning the Criminal Responsibility for Escape from the Place of Mandatory and Permanent Settlement of Persons Evacuated to the Remote Regions of the USSR at the Time of the Patriotic War” was signed
    The declaration referred to the Balkars, Ingush, Kalmycks, Crimean Tatars, Chechens, Meskhetians Turks, Greeks, Koreans, Kurds, Karachai, and Germans.
    even declaring such past actions as “criminal” and “illegal.”
    The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of People’s Commissars (SNK) decided to deport the Volga Germans en masse.
  2. Operation "Lentil": the history of one of the most brutal deportations in the USSR, Qalam, 20 Feb 2026. Scholarship & press
    Almost two weeks after the start of Operation Lentil, on 7 March 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree titled ‘On the Liquidation of the Chechen–Ingush ASSR and the Administrative Organization of Its Territory’ under the classification ‘Not for Publication’
  3. The 1944 Soviet Deportation of Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan and the Urals as Special Settlers, Wschodnioznawstwo, 2024. Scholarship & press
    those resettled to distant regions of the Soviet Union by decrees of people in the high leadership are exiled forever, without the right to return to their previous places of residence.
  4. Today in History, Nov. 14, The Moscow Times, 14 Nov 2013. Scholarship & press
    on Nov. 14. 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration that broke with Stalin's policy of deportation and resettlement of entire peoples, recognizing the rights of those who were persecuted under the Soviet regime and pledging history would never repeat itself.
  5. Kalmykia marks Memory Day of victims of Stalin deportation, Caucasian Knot, 28 Dec 2010. Scholarship & press
    On December 27, 1943, a decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet was signed "On Liquidation of the Kalmyk ASSR", and on the following day the operation "Uluses" was launched, which assumed forced resettling of the entire nation to remote localities of the country.
    "December 28, 1943, is a tragic date in the history of our nation," says the appeal of the head of Kalmykia Alexei Orlov.
  6. 80 years since the mass deportation of the Kalmyks, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, 28 Dec 2023. Scholarship & press
    The Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was formally abolished on 27 December, and the next day, all Kalmyks were given twelve hours to pack and get ready for relocation.
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