Ruslan Sevcenco, Soviet policy of organized migration. An example of the Moldavian SSR. Part II (1956-1967)

Abstract

In the period under research, the geography of the activity of the Main Directorate for resettlement and selecting organized labor of the Moldavian SSR was radically reduced, mostly to the geographical borders of Kazakhstan. Outside of those selected for organized labor, different categories of the population migrated towards Kazakhstan in particular the youth and skilled workers. The majority of those sent were brought to Kazakhstan by passenger trains, which reached the destination in 6-7 days. Some migrants were put on freight trains. In the second half of the 1950s, and, in particular, during the 1960s, the fulfilment of plans on the selection and resettlement was secured with increasingly considerable efforts. The causes for this were both the growing requirements towards the quality of the workers, deployed in Kazakhstan, and the gradual improvement of the economic situation in Moldova. This required the leadership of the Directorate to seek new arguments for justifying the failures in the execution of the approved plans, with these failures becoming more frequent.