FOREIGN PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE USSR DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR (based on the materials of declassified State Defence Committee resolutions)

The article is devoted to foreign prisoners of war who were in the USSR during the Second World War. The source base of the study are declassified resolutions of the State Defence Committee. An analysis of their content showed that the issue of prisoners of war began to be resolved in them only after the Battle of Stalingrad, when the number of foreign servicemen who were captured by Russians began to increase rapidly. The only exception was the State Defence Committee resolution of November 22, 1941 No. 947ss on the release of Iranian prisoners, but the issue of their status needs further study. At the final stage of the war, more than a dozen resolutions and orders of the State Defence Committee were adopted on the reception, placement and labour use of prisoners, their material and domestic support and repatriation.