By May 9, the Archive of Contemporary History will publish documents about the genocide in Crimea during the Second World War

By May 9, we, together with the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense, will publish the main documents relating to the liberation and restoration of Crimea on the website of our archive RGANI.RF, we want to coincide with Victory Day. This is material that was created during the days of the liberation of Crimea, this is the primary source. You need to read, watch, draw conclusions“, Permyakov said during a video link between Moscow and Simferopol, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Crimea from the fascist invaders.

According to the data provided by the director of the Russian State Historical Institute, Sevastopol was destroyed by 97% as a result of hostilities. After the liberation of the city, its population was 10 thousand people, while before the war 112 thousand people lived there.

The Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense contains unique documents relating to the genocide of the local population. Acts on the atrocities and destruction of the Nazi invaders in Crimea. There is 100% confirmation of the genocide of the Soviet people on the Crimean Peninsulanotes Permyakov.

After the end of the war, he continued, the state faced acute issues of “saturating Crimea with people” and restoring the national economy, as evidenced by documents stored in the Russian State Historical Institute. The resolution of the State Defense Committee dated August 12, 1944, Permyakov said, is devoted to “the resettlement of collective farmers to the regions of Crimea.” Several thousand people each headed to the peninsula from the Krasnodar Territory, from the Stavropol Territory, from the Voronezh, Rostov, Tambov, Kursk, Bryansk regions, and from the Ukrainian Republic. Collective farmers who moved to Crimea were entitled to various benefits.

One of the documents in the RGANI, the director of the archive said, is a decree of the State Defense Committee dated April 26, 1944 on the restoration of the main naval base of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, issued during the fighting in the Crimea. The resolution is set out on 15 pages “with strict deadlines on this issue.” General monitoring of the progress of construction and taking prompt action on all issues related to the restoration of the base was entrusted to the Deputy Chairman of the State Defense Committee, Lavrentiy Beria.