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Prisoner File with Execution Order, Yalta

Официальный документ ВЧК, подписан Э. М. Удрисом · 7 December 1920

A 1920 Cheka prisoner questionnaire for a former White Army officer, bearing a handwritten order for execution, from the Crimean repressions of Kun's period.

A Cheka execution order from the Crimean repressions during the period associated with Kun's role on regional revolutionary committees.

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Scanned Russian questionnaire titled 'Анкета' for registration of former White Army participants, form number 44, with handwritten answers and a large handwritten annotation reading 'Расстрелять' (execute) with a signature-like mark across the page.
Cheka prisoner file with execution order, Yalta, 7 December 1920.

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What it is

A scanned Russian registration form, numbered 44, used by the Cheka to process former participants of the White Army. It records personal details of a prisoner and carries a large handwritten annotation ordering his execution, signed by E. M. Udris on 7 December 1920 in Yalta.

Why it matters

This document is part of the mass repression carried out in Crimea after the end of the civil war, during the time Béla Kun held a role on the regional revolutionary committee overseeing such actions. It is a stark primary record of how individual lives were ended by brief administrative decisions.

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