Service and legal position of military servants of the NKVD USSR under the effect of emergency legislation of the Great Patriotic War

The article shows the role of emergency legislation during the Great Patriotic War in the mobilization of forces and means for the defense of the country, its impact on all spheres of state activity in order to create a single combat camp of the front and rear. The definition of the service and legal status of military personnel is given, the composition of the Armed Forces of the USSR and the troops of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of its members is revealed. The author analyzes the impact of normative legal acts of wartime on the official and legal status of NKVD troops, as part of the analysis, an example of the negative impact of the double subordination of NKVD troops - direct to its People’s Commissariat and operational - to the military administration of the Red Army of the People’s Commissariat of Defense of the USSR is given. The article shows an example of a legal epiphenomenon - a legal fact that had a significant impact on the official and legal status of the NKVD troops, but did not lead to its transition to a new qualitative level. The impact of emergency legislation on the rights, benefits, and social security of NKVD troops, their family members, and war invalids was also noted. The analysis of the legal responsibility of military personnel “according to the laws of wartime” is carried out, during which a significant impact of criminal liability on the official and legal status of front-line soldiers of the NKVD troops is established. The article emphasizes the need to use the positive historical experience of legal regulation during the Great Patriotic War to improve the current legislation of the Russian Federation in difficult modern military-political conditions, where one of the important problems is the establishment of an effective service and legal status of military personnel taking part in a special military operation.