Gulag kilde: Dekret fra den øverste sovjets præsidium om farlige fanger - 1948
USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium decree, February 21, 1948, ordering the exile to remote places of those especially dangerous state criminals who have completed their sentences.
No. 128/11
Not for publication
DECREE OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR
On exiling to remote areas of the USSR especially dangerous state criminals upon completion of the sentences.
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR is ordered to deport all inmates of special camps and prisons, namely, spies, saboteurs, terrorists, Trotskyites, right-wingers, Mensheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries, anarchists, nationalists, White emigrants, and members of other anti-Soviet organizations and groups, as well as persons dangerous by virtue of their anti-Soviet connections and inimical activity – upon the completion of their sentences – as directed by the Ministry of State Security of the USSR to the following exile areas under the supervision of organs of the Ministry of State Security (MGB):
- the region of Kolyma in the Far North;
- the regions of Krasnoiarsk krai and Novosibirsk oblast’ within 50 kilometers north of the Trans-Siberian Main Line;
- the Kazakh SSR, excluding the oblast’s of Alma-Ata, Gur’ev, South Kazakhstan, Aktibinsk, East Kazakhstan, and Semipalatinsk.
- The Ministry of State Security of the USSR is ordered to exile state criminals as listed in paragraph 1 who have served out their sentences in corrective-labor camps and prisons since the end of the Great Patriotic War.
The deportation of these persons is to be carried out in accordance with the decisions of a Special Conference of the MGB USSR.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, N.Shernik.
Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, A. Gorkin.
Moscow, the Kremlin
February 21, 1948
Doc. No. 111/8
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (signed) J. Stalin
Manager of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (signed) IA. Chadaev