Koloshinskaya N.V. Problems of stealing prevention in prisoner of war camps on the territory of Leningrad and Leningrad oblast in the late 1940s 

Abstract: In the Soviet legal doctrine stealing of state and public property was considered as an infringement on the economic basis of the state. In terms of a permanent shortage of goods of prime necessity stealing of state and public property was qualified as a dangerous, damaging crime. According to the legislation of that period, the inquiry bodies, prosecution agencies and courts were responsible for implementation of the principle of unavoidability of punishment, the completeness and objectivity of adjudication of all stealing, appropriation and peculation cases wherever they had been happening. To achieve the research objectives the author applies general scientific and specific methods of analysis, synthesis, the structural-logical method, statistical and other methods of scientific cognition. The archive documents analysis shows that in many units of Leningrad directorate of prisoners of war and interned the head’s term of office depended upon the position of his patrons in the superior bodies. Thus, the head of the camp department No 21 of the directorate of prisoner of war camps No 339 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union M. Pavlov was fired from the system of internal affairs by the decree of the head of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union in Leningrad oblast No 628 of 1 November 1946 for a regular abuse of official position for lucrative purposes. The evidences were taken to the personnel department of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be attached to his personal profile. 

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