Deportations of Ukrainians in the 1920s
The deportation history of Ukrainians to Russia began with the colonization of the Cossack lands in the late 18th century and lasts to this day. There were several stages associated with...
Articles, documents and essays on Russian forcible deportation from experts
The deportation history of Ukrainians to Russia began with the colonization of the Cossack lands in the late 18th century and lasts to this day. There were several stages associated with...
Forced deportation and persecution accompanied Soviet governance of occupied Ukraine from the beginning until the breakup of the Soviet Union.
For Europe, 1939 was the beginning of one of the most dramatic pages of the XX century —World War II.
In 1944, the Soviet army occupied the West of Ukraine once again. While the Soviet troops marched to Berlin, some of them remained in the occupied territories in the West of Ukraine to re-establish the communist regime.
The Soviet forcible mass deportations caused a demographic crisis and a national tragedy in the temporarily occupied countries — Ukraine, the Baltic States, and Poland.
For Europe, 1939 was the beginning of one of the most dramatic pages of the XX century —World War II.
In all occupied territories or areas of influence, the Soviet government used deportation as a method of governance. During the Soviet occupation of 1939-1990, the peoples of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia became victims of forced deportation from their places of residence.
The Soviet occupation authorities drew different reasons for each ethnic group to be eliminated from the territory of Ukraine, but the procedure was always the same — forcible deportation. In this article, we will draw upon the extraction of ethnic Germans from Ukraine.
The Soviet occupation regime deported people from Ukraine not only based on their economic status (“kulaks”), but also extracted ethnic groups. This article will touch upon the eviction of indigenous people living in Ukraine’s peninsula, Crimea, — Crimean Tatars (qirimli).
Deportation processes in the Baltic States were organized by the Soviet occupation regime several times. In June 1941, the Soviets already forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of people from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, but it was considered insufficient to totally subjugate those states.
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