| The Polish Operation of the NKVD (1937–38)[1] | |
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.jpg) First page of one of the copies of the order, archived by the Kharkov branch of the NKVD | |
| Location | Soviet Union, modern-day Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and others |
| Date | 1937–1938 |
| Target | Poles |
Attack type | Prison shootings |
| Deaths | At least 111,091 executed, mostly Poles |
| Perpetrators | Soviet NKVD |
The Soviet NKVD Order No. 00485 was an anti-Polish ethnic cleansing campaign issued on August 11, 1937, which laid the foundation for the systematic elimination of the Polish minority in the Soviet Union between 1937 and 1938. The order was called "On the liquidation of Polish sabotage and espionage groups and units of the POW" (POW stands for Polish Military Organization, Polska Organizacja Wojskowa) (Russian: О ликвидации польских диверсионно-шпионских групп и организаций ПОВ). It is dated August 9, 1937, was issued by the Central Committee Politburo (VKP b), and signed by Nikolai Yezhov, the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs. The operation was at the center of the national operations of the NKVD, and the largest ethnically motivated shooting action of the Great Terror.[1][2][3]
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