Legal regulation of the organization and activities of emergency es tablishment bodies and the investigation of the atrocities of the Nazi invaders
- Authors: Grebenshikova I.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Ural Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
- Issue: No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 5-12
- Section: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL LEGAL SCIENCES
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2307-9525/article/view/309868
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.21685/2307-9525-2025-13-3-1
- ID: 309868
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Abstract
Background. The Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 became a serious test for the entire So viet people. The activities of the state were transferred to wartime conditions: to coordinate the work, government bodies were reorganized, as well as new ones were formed. One of these newly created bodies was the Extraordinary State Commission for the Identification and Investigation of the Atroci ties of the Nazi Invaders and Their Accomplices and the Damage they caused to Citizens, collective farms, public organizations, state enterprises and institutions of the USSR (ChGK). The experience of creating and operating such a commission is of great importance in modern conditions, when it be came necessary to record and investigate the atrocities of the Kiev regime. This makes this topic un doubtedly relevant. The purpose of this work is to identify the great practical importance of creating such units in emergency situations, as well as during a special military operation by the Russian Fed eration, based on the study and analysis of regulatory legal acts and the available scientific literature on the organization of ChGKs. Materials and methods. Using methods of scientific knowledge based on the analysis of normative legal acts and available scientific literature, the positive experience of the creation and operation of the ChGK during the Great Patriotic War and the impact of this experience on the creation of similar structures in modern conditions in order to record the atrocities of the Kiev regime were summarized. Results. The author has studied the normative legal acts and scientific litera ture on the organization and activities of the ChGK, which recorded and investigated crimes against humanity during the Great Patriotic War, and the use of the experience of these units in modern condi tions. Conclusions. The experience of organizing and operating the ChGK is of great practical im portance in the modern world for fixing violations of international law by the Kiev regime.
About the authors
Irina V. Grebenshikova
Ural Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
Author for correspondence.
Email: grebenshikova_iv@mail.ru
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law
Russian Federation, 66 Korepina street, Yekaterinburg, 620057References
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