According to the Resolution passed by the USSR People’s Committee of Internal Affairs at the beginning of the World War II, those prisoners who had served their sentences were not released. While they were granted hired workers status, prisoners remained in prisons with the charge of high treason, terror, espionage and committing act of sabotage.

The prisons and colonies were transferred at the military state. The prisoners were not allowed to have correspondence or any kind of relation with their relatives.

The war finished. The authority didn’t slow down the Great Purge even after gaining the victory in the war. The Communist Party and the Soviet authority continued their ideological repressions. Although the people were not imprisoned unfairly any more, free ideology was suppressed in every field.

Any achievement in architecture, art, music, writing, or science was deemed to be unacceptable for the socialism. The painters D.Kakabadze and L. Gudiashvili were accused of subordinating to the west ideology which the Soviet Union deemed to be formal and primitive. The following composers got under the Great Purge: Andria Balanchivadze, Shalva Mshvildzadze, Otar Taktakishvili and Iona Tuskia.

The people, who were not for the Soviet political system, were in a difficult situation. The most indignant fact was as follows: the punitive measures were taken even towards those persons and their families who took part in war.

On the basis of Resolution No. 9871 passed by the State Defense Committee on August 18, 1945, the Soviet soldiers, who had been captivated by the Germans, were to pass a special control. All of them were accused of different grave crimes and their cases were brought before the law. Some of them were sentenced to six year exile to the far regions of the Soviet Union, while others were sent back to the military units. Many of them showed themselves and were awarded.

Besides, the follow people were under the penalty: those who escaped from captivity and fought in partisan detachments. Unfortunately, all the files of those persons, who were in captive during the World War II, were burnt in the fire during in 1991-1992.

Despite the fire, there are 3,000 files in the former state Security Archive. These are files of those persons whose cases were brought before the law on the grounds of Article 58-1.