196 Larysa Levchenko
It is a pity to have to write this , but today it is important to recognize that archives were an important factor in the implementation of the Stalinist policies of repression . The archivists were forced to investigate archival documents for operational NKVS purposes , bluntly speaking to search information about persons who had nobleman or merchant origin , worked in state institutions at Imperial times , were prosecutors , judges , policemen , served in gendarmeries , prisons , customs , the Tsar Army , were deputies of city councils , governors , directors of gymnasiums and banks , owners of private industrial and trading enterprises , members of political parties ( the Polish party , the United Social Democratic Labour Party , the Bund , the Poale Zion , the Ukrainian National Association , the Monarchists , the Borotbists , the Octobrists , the Trudoviks , the Mensheviks , the Socialist-Revolutionaries , the Anarchists , the members of the Union of the Russian People , and the People ’ s Freedom Party , the Ukrainian Society of ‘ Prosvita ’), as well as the participants of revolts against Soviet power , the White Guardsmen , the Makhnovists , the Trotskyists , the adherents of Petliura and Hetman P . Skoropadskyi , ministers of religious worships , sectarians , foreign colonists , and representatives of foreign governments , etc . The NKVS were provided with information cards on all these people and their relatives . The cards were sent monthly to the Second Division of the NKVS . It was a secret-political department created specifically for the fight against political enemies of the Communist regime . Unfortunately , the author of this article does not possess the data from all the archives of Ukraine , however , ‘ information about the investigation of archival materials for operational NKVS purposes ’ obtained in the State Archives of the Mykolaiv region is no less disturbing 57 .
For example , on November 1 , 1940 information was sent from this archives to the NKVD for 2,841 persons , December 24 , 1940 - for 906 , February 4 , 1941 - for 125 , February 26 , 1941 - for 4,550 , March 5 , 1941 – for 4614 , March 22 , 1941 – for 4747 , April 21 , 1941 – for 5120 , May 5 , 1941 – for 5,254 , May 20 , 1941 – for 5,311 , June 6 , 1941 – for 5,683 , and June 23 , 1941 – for 5,133 persons 58 . The archival fonds which contained information on these individuals were classified and transferred to the security divisions of archives . At the beginning of the Second World War , these fonds were either destroyed or evacuated for further research . To date , no one has yet compared the names on these cards with the names of those ones who died in Stalin ’ s concentration camps . The archivists found themselves among the first who were repressed .
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Типовой список архивных материалов , выделяемых в отделы секретных фондов центральных , республиканских , краевых и областных государственных архивов , Москва 1939 , p . 1 – 5 .
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DAMO , F . R-1002 , Op . 2 , Spr . 16 , Ark . 1 – 47 ; F . R-1002 , Op . 2 , Spr . 12 , Ark . 1 – 4 .