Directive of the Central Committee on preventing the mass departure of starving peasants.

Directive of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on preventing the mass departure of starving peasants. January 22, 1933

A source:

The tragedy of the Soviet village. Collectivization and dispossession. Documents and materials Volume 3. End of 1930 - 1933. Moscow ROSSPEN 2000. Pp. 634-635

Archive:

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11.D.45. L. 109-109 rev. Stalin's autograph.

No. 258

Rostov-Don, Kharkov, Voronezh, Smolensk, Minsk, Stalingrad, Samara

The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party and the Council of People's Commissars received information that in the Kuban and Ukraine began a massive departure of peasants "for bread" in the Central Black Earth Region, on the Volga, Moscow Region. Western Region, Belarus. The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR have no doubts that this departure of the peasants, like the departure from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of the Soviet government, the Social Revolutionaries and agents of Poland with the aim of agitating "through the peasants" in the northern regions of the USSR against collective farms and, in general, against Soviet power. Last year, the party, Soviet and KGB organs of Ukraine missed this counter-revolutionary venture of the enemies of Soviet power. This year, a repetition of last year's mistake cannot be allowed.

First. The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR instruct the Territorial, Territorial Executive Committees and PP of the OGPU of the North Caucasus not to allow the mass departure of peasants from the North Caucasus to other regions and entry into the territory of the region from Ukraine.

Second. The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party and the Council of People's Commissars instruct the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) U, Ukrsovnarkom, Balitsky and Redens not to allow mass exodus of peasants from Ukraine to other regions and entry to Ukraine from the North Caucasus.

Third. The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party and the Council of People's Commissars instruct the PP of the OGPU of the Moscow Region, the Central Chernobyl Region, the Western Region, Belarus, the Lower Volga and the Middle Volga to arrest the "peasants" of Ukraine and the North Caucasus who have made their way to the north and, after the counter-revolutionary elements are selected, to install the rest residence.

Fourth. The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party and the Council of People's Commissars instruct the GPU Maintenance Prokhorov to give an appropriate order on the GPU maintenance system.

V.M. Molotov of the Pre-Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) I. Stalin