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On Fri. 16 may 1941 Vsevolod Merkulov reported to Joseph Stalin regard.....

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Vsevolod Merkulov reported to Joseph Stalin regarding the final deportation plan for the Baltic States, which targeted political leaders, land owners, officers, and others, plus their families. He recommended 8-year imprisonment in labor camps for them, and the exile to faraway lands in the Soviet Union for their families.

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