Stalin, on the approval of the directive "On anti-Soviet elements" of July 2, 1937.

A source:
"Through the corpses of the enemy for the good of the people." "Kulak operation" in the Ukrainian SSR 1937-1941. T. 1: 1937. M .: (ROSSPEN): Foundation "Presidential Center of Boris N. Yeltsin": German Historical Institute in Moscow, 2010. Pp. 60-61
Archive:
Execution by order, or how the Bolsheviks did it // Trud. 1992 June 4. P. 1. Verified with a copy of the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) // RGASPI. F. 17. On. 162.D.21.L. 89.

No. P 51/94.

July 3, 1937   

Top secret

ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY (BOLSHEVIKOV) CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Comrade Yezhov

Secretaries of regional committees, regional committees, Central Committee of national communist parties

Extract from the minutes No. 51 of the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b)

Decision of 2.VІІ.37

94. - About anti-Soviet elements.

It has been noticed that most of the former kulaks and criminals, who were expelled at one time from different regions to the northern and Siberian regions, and then, after the expiration of the expulsion period, who returned to their regions 1 , are the main instigators of all kinds of anti-Soviet and sabotage crimes, both in collective farms and state farms, and in transport and in some industries.

The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) invites all the secretaries of regional and regional organizations and all regional, regional and republican representatives of the NKVD to register all the kulaks and criminals who have returned to their homeland so that the most hostile of them are immediately arrested and shot in the administrative procedure. cases through troikas, and the rest of the less active, but still hostile elements would be rewritten and sent to the regions at the direction of the NKVD.

The Central Committee of the CPSU (b) proposes to submit to the Central Committee the composition of the troikas, as well as the number of those to be shot, as well as the number of those to be expelled, within five days.

Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b)    

I. Stalin

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1 We are talking about "special settlers" - peasants, who, during collectivization, were classified as kulaks, dispossessed and deported to so-called kulak settlements. See: Zemskov V.N.Special Settlers (According to the documents of the NKVD - Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR) // Sociological Research. 1990. No. 11. S. 3-17.