Former People

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FORMER PEOPLE is the name for the operation against people who had earlier belonged to privileged social classes carried out in the course of the repressions of Kirov Stream. In accordance with the plan of the Administration of People's Commissariat of Home Affairs for Leningrad Region (Instructions of 27 February 1935 On Exiling Counter-Revolutionary Elements from Leningrad and Suburban Districts to Distant Regions of the Country) 5,000 families of Former People were to be evicted in one month. A special team was created and all the agents were mobilised for the operation. From 28 February up to 27 March 1935, 11,072 people were either sentenced or exiled (4,833 heads of families and 6,239 members of families), including 67 former princes, 44 counts, 106 barons, 1,177 former officers of the Imperial and White Army, and 218 priests. Out of the total number of the convicted heads of families 994 people had already been persecuted earlier. From 1 April 1935, the People's Commissariat of Home Affairs started the new operation in the course of which by 25 April some 5,100 more families were sent away (a total of 22,511 people), including 101 families of the Former People. Later, before 15 June 1935, over 8,000 people were sent away from Leningrad borderline areas to 100 kilometres-away secure areas during various passport operations.

References: Иванов В. А. Миссия Ордена: Механизм массовых репрессий в Сов. России в конце 20-х - 40-х гг.: (На материалах Северо-Запада РСФСР). СПб., 1997; Провести очистку Ленинграда кампанейским путем: Док. АП РФ о высылке бывших людей, 1935-1936 гг. // Ист. архив. 2003. №2. С. 104-130.

I. A. Flige. Иванов В. А. Миссия Ордена: Механизм массовых репрессий в Сов. России в конце 20-х - 40-х гг.: (На материалах Северо-Запада РСФСР). СПб., 1997 Kirovsky Stream
Former People
1935