Measures of the NKVD of the USSR to increase the labor productivity of the special contingent of forced labor camps working in mines during the Great Patriotic War (1942-1943)
The article is devoted to the issues of labor use of the special contingent of correctional labor institutions in the coal mines of the Moscow region during the Great Patriotic War. To increase the productivity of the special contingent of the NKVD of the USSR, it took a number of measures, both of an incentive nature and of disciplinary punishment. The incentive nature of the measures was expressed in an increase in wages, improved nutrition, living conditions, re-escorting, etc. Such measures were applied to the special contingent, which fulfilled and exceeded 100% of the output quota. Disciplinary measures, expressed in a decrease in food norms (penalty rations), landing in a guardhouse for up to 6 days, etc., were taken against workers who systematically did not fulfill production quotas, simulators and refusers from work.