... Since Koreans generally do not take into the army and they were in a special account, together with the general regulations of labor mobilization, were to be directive, directly prescribe what to do with them, to make military enlistment offices knew who to send to the front and who - in the construction and working of the column.
And this kind of decisions and orders were. As early as autumn 1940 the Chief Military Council of the People's Commissariat Defense in the decision on an appeal to the army ordered encourage, but do not send in the army, and to enroll in the labor battalions of conscripts from the people of Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Romanian national . [Russian Archives: The Great Patriotic War. T. 13 (2-2). - M., 1997, 394]
If we talk about war-time then, apparently, the documents governing the mobilization of Koreans, there were several. The most important of them - Resolution № GOCO 2414s from 14 October 1942 on the mobilization of in the Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik and Turkmen SSR conscripts to work in industry and construction of railways and industrial enterprises ". Separate line item in this Regulation, paragraph 1 reads: "including to mobilize all the Koreans of military age." [RGASPI, fund 644, inventory 1, Case 64, fol. 37.] Of the mobilized should be formed by the workers' columns are distributed to various commissariats. Mobilization was assigned to the NGOs through local recruitment. The decree provides for the allocation of mobilized "partial replacement of their current work on the construction existing enterprises camp troops of the NKVD. "
other documents are: GOCO Resolution № 2640 of 20.12.1942, and the appropriate Order Defense Commissar of the USSR № 0974 from 21.12.1942, the mobilization of all military districts in which the Koreans, with the exception of working in industry and transport, were directed by Glavupraforma outfits for work in industry and construction; The GKO USSR of 05.12.1942 "On the mobilization of the Uzbek SSR 2,5 thousand military service Koreans and sending them to the construction of the Uzbek Metallurgical Plant and others.
mobilized Koreans did not always know that will work in "labor battalions". According to the stories of Koreans-trudarmeytsev have worked in the Komi Republic, sending outside Uzbekistan, they were announced that they will be sent to either the front or on military training and then to the front. The fact that they will work in the labor army, they knew only at the arrival point.
Where Koreans working-trudarmeytsy, and how many were there? The currently available documents do not give a complete picture of this issue, while providing some idea. Initially, apparently had plans to use the mobilized Koreans only in the republics their residence. Thus, the GKO decree from 14.10.1942 № 2414s, it was ordered: "All Koreans use only within the Uzbek and Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic." However, we know that the Koreans worked in the USSR, and Ukraine.
Cited by: Khan vs Koryo Saram : Who are we? Essays on the history of Koreans. Bishkek, 2009
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