The Mass Deportation on 14. June 1941

     According to the directives, instructions, and regulations of the Soviet state security agencies, the following categories of people were to be deported:

1) active members of nationalistic counter-revolutionary organisations, along with their families;

2) former state security officers, military police officers, police officers, and prison guards;

3) former military officers who weren't serving in the Red Army and about whom the authorities had compromising information;

4) family members of counter-revolutionaries who had been severely punished;

5) people who had repatriated from Germany, and Germans who had been on the list of those wishing to be repatriated to Germany and about whom the authorities had compromising information;

6) refugees from former Poland who had refused to become Soviet citizens;

7) criminals;

8) prostitutes who had been registered with the former police authorities and who had continued dealing with prostitution.