Soviet deportations from Lithuania were a series of 35 mass deportations carried out in Lithuania, a country that was occupied as a constituent socialist republic of the Soviet Union, in 1941 and 1945–1952. Origins & Experience Background Outcomes Millions of ethnic minorities killed Ethnic groups lacking citizenship Cultural destruction Development of anti-Russian sentiment Ethnic discrimination Benites, Kirsten. The Tatars of Crimea: Return to the Homeland: Studies and Documents. Stalin’s security chief Lavrenty Beria recommended the deportation of whole peoples accused of collaborating with the Germans. The answer is simple – because the best ones … were deported, so that the remaining ones could be manipulated more easily and silenced,” said Filip. The two largest waves of deportations occurred in June 1941 and March 1949 simultaneously in all three Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). Stalin deported roughly 900,000 Soviet Germans along with 90,000 Finns in 1941-1942, and over 40,000 died in their exile (16). Central and Eastern Europe after 1945. №390-138сс «О выселении с территории Литвы, Латвии и Эстонии кулаков с семьями, семей бандитов и националистов, находящихся на нелегальном положении, убитых при вооруженных столкновениях и осужденных, легализованных бандитов, продолжающих вести вражескую работу, и их семей, а также семей репрессированных пособников бандитов».The Estonian State Commission on Examination of the Policies of Repression The Estonian State Commission on Examination of the Policies of Repression "The Supreme Soviet of the USSR unambiguously condemns the practice of forceful deportation of the entire nations as the most terrific felony, contradicting the basics of the international legislation and humanitarian nature of socialistic order. Istoriya SSSR., 1990, No.4Courtois, Stephane (2010). 121–122.

11,102 people were to be deported from Estonia according to the order of 13 June but some managed to escape.The first wave of deportation has always been well documented, as many witnesses were subsequently able to flee abroad during the In the early morning of 25 March 1949, the second major wave of deportation from the Many perished, most have never returned home. The purge concentrated on the most prominent figures in society.Over 100,000 people were sent to labour camps in the Soviet Union from Bessarabia – today’s Moldova – in three waves, in June 1941, July 1949 and April 1951.Many of them died on the way to Siberia for lack of food and water and because of the inhumane conditions on a train journey lasting weeks.“The drama of the deportations, the terrible tortures that these people went through, are still open wounds, but they are our wounds, and they are part of what we are today.“That’s why it’s important not to forget. pp. The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: Qırımtatar halqınıñ sürgünligi; Ukrainian: Депортація кримських татар; Russian: Депортация крымских татар) or the Sürgünlik ("exile") was the ethnic cleansing of at least 191,044 Crimean Tatars in 18–20 May 1944 carried out by the Stalinist regime, specifically by Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet state security and secret police, acting on behalf of Joseph Stalin. [1] Contents. "Meskhetians: Muslim Georgians or Meskhetian Turks?

Jones, Stephen F. (1993). At least 130,000 people, 70% of them women and children, were forcibly transported to labor camps and other forced settlements in remote parts of the Soviet Union, particularly in the Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai. On repatriation of Soviet citizens). The Crimean Tatar exile resulted in the abandonment of 80,000 households and 360,000 acres of land. Rafał Lemkin. К вопросу о репатриации советских граждан. BIRN. Within three days, Beria's NKVDused cattle trains to deport mostly women, children, the … Baltic States: The Years of Dependence, 1940–1980. 1990. In most cases, their destinations were underpopulated remote areas (see Large numbers of kulaks regardless of their nationality were resettled to During the 1930s, categorisation of so-called enemies of the people shifted from the usual Looking at the entire period of Stalin's rule, one can list: During World War II, particularly in 1943–44, the Soviet government conducted a series of Some peoples were deported after Stalin's death: in 1959, Chechen returnees were supplanted from the mountains to the Chechen plain.

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