Eksempel på kvotesystem

Politbureau beslutning vedrørende anti-sovjetiske elementer.

STRICTLY SECRET

All-union Communist Party (Bolshevik) Central Committee
31 January 1938
To Comrade Yezhov, the regional and territorial committees, and the CCs of the national Communist parties.
Extract form Protocol #57 of the Politburo of the CC
#48. Re: Anti-Soviet elements.

a) the proposal by the NKVD [det hemmelige politi] of the USSR regarding the imposition of punitive measures on additional numbers of former kulaks, criminals, and actively anti-Soviet elements is to be approved, corresponding to the following regions, territories and republics:

	First category	Second category
Armenian SSR	1.000	1.000
Belorussian SSR	1.500	[blank]
Ukrainian SSR	6.000	[blank]
Georgian SSR	1.500	[blank]
Azerbaijan SSR	2.000	[blank]
Turkmen SSR	1.000	[blank]
Kirghiz SSR	500	[blank]
Tadzhik SSR	1.000	500
Uzbek SSR	2.000	500
Far Eastern territory	8.000	2.000
Chita region	1.500	500
Buryat-Mongolian ASSR	500	[blank]
Irkutsk region	3.000	500
Krasnoyarsk territory	1.500	500
Novosibirsk region	1.000	[blank]
Omsk region	3.000	2.000
Altai territory	2.000	1.000
Leningrad region	3.000	[blank]
Karelian ASSR	500	200
Kalinin region	1.500	500
Moscow region	4.000	[blank]
Sverdlovsk region	2.000	[blank]

b) It is proposed that the NKVD og the USSR complete all of its operations in the above-mentioned regions, territories and republics no later than 15 March 1938 and in the Far Eastern territory no later than 1 April 1938.

c) It is proposed that the work of the troikas be extended in accordance with the present decree…

Secretary of the CC.

Kilde: Getty, J. Arch og Naumov, Oleg V.:  The Road to Terror, Yale 1999, side 518-519.