Репрессивная политика советского государства и судьбы военнопленных Красной армии – участников советско-финской войны 1939–1940 годов

Abstract

In the article it is proved that in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939– 1940 the state and political management of the USSR tried to write off failures on the Soviet prisoners of war who have appeared in Finnish to captivity. The relation of the state and its high-ranking officials to the military personnel, got to the Finnish captivity, was characterized by antihumanity, monstrous neglect to human life, absence of desire objectively to understand each fact of capture of the Soviet serviceman, his behavior in captivity. The destiny of the captured was solved not on the basis of the Law, and on the basis of personal instructions and Stalin and Beria’s orders. Illegal condemnation of a considerable part of the Soviet military personnel who has appeared in Finnish to captivity, created precedent for further punishment of those who in days of the Great Patriotic War appeared in captivity, but already in German.