Zemskov, V.N. Did the Soviet leaders have an intention to move the Ukrainian population, previously living in the situation of German occupation, in 1944?

Abstract: This article presents a polemic against the statement that back in 1944 the Soviet leaders had an intention to deport the Ukrainian population, which previously lived in the situation of German occupation. The author provides the facts, which leave no place for the doubts that the so-called Decree of the NKVD of the USSR and the People’s Commissariat of Defense of June 22, 1944, which was published in the Ukrainian press in 1992, and which supposedly provided for deportation of all of the Ukrainians, who have previously lived in the situation of Ukrainian occupation, is a counterfeit document. Due to the absence of any proving documents and obvious contradictions with the facts, there are doubts in the truthfulness of the statement of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushev at the XX Assembly of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956 that I.V. Stalin did not move the Ukrainians only for the reason that there “were too many of them, and nowhere to move them to”.

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