TYPE: Dossier
COMPONENTS: 41pp. 4to.
CONDITION: Light edgewear, but otherwise fine condition.
NOTES: Excellent and rare complete dossier.
ITEM ID: 5068
Soviet Dossier Sends Two Deserters to Penalty Battalions
DATE
Year: 1943
Decade: 1940s
Century: 20th (1901-2000)
Excellent and rare complete dossier from the Special Department of the NKVD, issued against two Russian soldiers serving in the 301 Artillery Regiment. The two deserters, Michael Ivontson and Ivan Lukachev, planned to surrender to the Germans but were apprehended and sentenced to ten years in the gulags after the completion of their service and an immediate transfer to the infamous ‘Shtrafbat’ or penalty battalions – a penal military branch and a sure death sentence to most that were sent there. The total number of people convicted to penal units from September 1942 to May 1945 was 422,700, though very few of them were known to have survived the war.
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