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Lavrentiy Beria
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1940
March
05
Decision to shoot Polish prisoners
On 5 March 1940 the Politburo adopted Beria's proposal to shoot 14,700 Polish POWs and 11,000 prisoners without trial. Stalin was among the signatories.
1941
September
08
The deportation of the Volga Germans
A decree of 28 August 1941 condemned the Volga Germans to expulsion. From 3 to 20 September the NKVD deported some 440,000 people to Siberia and Kazakhstan.