in labor camps, corrective labor colonies, or special-regimen orphanages (see also: Orphans in the Soviet Union). The remaining orphaned children were to be placed in ordinary orphanages or with non-convicted relatives (if the latter wished). Personnel of the orphanages to house the children of the convicted were to be purged and refitted with politically reliable staff to properly supervise the "correction" of the children. Article 5 of the Order stated wives with breast-feeding children, those who were ill, or with ill children were not to be arrested. Article 17 further specified that they were to be placed to labor camps later: breast-feeders after the verdict, those with illness after the recovery. Article 16 of the Order instructed to place the wives of the "traitors to the Motherland" into the Special Department of Temlag. Article 18 specified various kinds of facilities to imprison "socially-dangerous" children. During the Great Purge, the orphanages became overcrowded, and the country was flooded with runaway orphans, greatly increasing juvenile delinquency, as had occurred during the Russian Civil War. See also Collective punishment Orphans in the Soviet Union#Children of "enemies of the people", 1937–1945 References External links NKVD Government documents of the Soviet Union Collective punishment Soviet phraseology