“HOW ARE REGIME AND CONTROL ORGANIZED HERE?”
N.N. Ablazhey, L.M. Salakhova
Keywords: ethnic exile, special settlement headquarters, department of special settlements, regime
Abstract
The authors introduce into scientific use a document originated in the Special Settlements Department of the UMGB (Ministry of State Security Directorate) of the Irkutsk oblast. It is a typical annual report of one of the special settlements’ regional headquarters belonging to the 9
th department of the UMGB of the Irkutsk oblast. The document shows reporting procedures as well as regulations of the deportees’ life in special settlements. The shorthand report of the special settlement commandants’ meeting on March 28, 1952 serves as a commentary to the above-mentioned document.
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