DECREE OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR
"On the proclamation of martial law in some areas of the USSR"
On the basis of article 49 p. "p" of the Constitution of the USSR
martial law to be proclaimed in the Arkhangelsk District, Belorussian SSR, Vologda
District, Voronezh District, Ivanovo District, Karelo-Finnish SSR, Kalinin District,
Krasnodar Krai, Crimean ASSR, Kursk District, Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, City of
Leningrad and Leningrad District, Moldavian SSR, Murmansk District, City of Moscow
and Moscow District, Orel District, Rostov District, Ryazan District, Smolensk
District, Tula District, Ukrainian SSR, Estonian SSR and Yaroslavl District.
Chairman of the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M. KALININ
Secretary of the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A. GORKIN
Moscow, The Kremlin. June 22, 1941
(translation by Electronic Museum Canada from the
original Russian language version)
SOVIET ATROCITIES
COMMITTED IN OCCUPIED EASTERN POLAND, JUNE-JULY 1941
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