Gulag kilde: Memorandum fra Jagoda til Stalin af 17. januar 1935 angående frigivne fanger

Kilde: Koenker, Diane P. og Bachman, Ronald D.: Revelations from the Russian Archives, Washington 1997, side 61.

Memorandum from Iagoda to Stalin, January 17, 1935, on permanent exile of relased prisoners.

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REBUPLICS
PEOPLES COMMISSARIAT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS (NKVD)

January 17, 1935, No. 55137
Moscow, 2 Dzerzhinsky Square
Telephone: NKVD Switchboard
Brief Description of Contents:…
(Handwritten:) 66/25.1.35. correct. I.st.

TOP SECRET

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY (BOLSHEVIK) (TSK VKP (b))

Comrade STALIN

The decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, dated May 27, 1934, concerning the restoration of civil rights to forced labor deportees unconditionally requires persons who have had their civil rights restored to settle permanently in the areas to which they where deported.

Because no special clause was added to the law, however, forced labor deportees have been leaving the areas to which they were deported en masse as soon as their civil rights have been restored, which has frustrated our efforts to settle uninhabited areas.
The return of rehabilitated forced labor deportees to the areas from which they were deported would also be politically undesirable.

I believe it would be desirable for the Central Executive Committee of the USSR to issue an amendment to its decree of May 27, 1934, which should indicate that restoration of civil rights does not give forced labor deportees the right to leave the areas to which they were deported.

PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS 
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REBUPLICS 
(signed) G. Iagoda.