7th December 2004, 02:14
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Deportations
Main article: Population transfer in the Soviet Union. Shortly before, during and immediately after World War II, Stalin conducted a series of deportations on a huge scale which profoundly affected the ethnic map of the Soviet Union. Over 1.5 million people were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics. Separatism, resistance to Soviet rule and collaboration with the invading Germans were cited as the main official reasons for the deportations. The following ethnic groups were deported completely or partially: Poles, Koreans, Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Karachays, Meskhetian Turks, Bulgarians, Greeks, Armenians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians. Large numbers of Kulaks, regardless of their nationality, were resettled to Siberia and Central Asia. In February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev condemned the deportations as a violation of Leninist principles, and reversed most of them, although it was not until as late as 1991 that the Tatars, Meskhs and Volga Germans were allowed to return en masse to their homelands. The deportations had a profound effect on the peoples of the Soviet Union. The memory of the deportations played a major part in the separatist movements in the Baltic republics, Tatarstan and Chechnya. Death toll About one million people were shot during the periods 1935-38, 1942 and 1945-50 and millions of people were transported to Gulag labour camps. In Georgia about 80,000 people were shot during 1921, 1923-24, 1935-38, 1942 and 1945-50, and more than 100,000 people were transported to Gulag camps. On March 5, 1940, Stalin himself and other Soviet leaders signed the order to execute 25,700 Polish intelligentsia including 14,700 Polish POWs. It became known as Katyn massacre. Some other infamous massacres: massacre of prisoners 30,000-40,000 people. It is generally agreed by historians that if famines, prison and labour camp mortality, and state terrorism (deportations and political purges) are taken into account, Stalin and his colleagues were directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions. How many millions died under Stalin is greatly disputed. Although no official figures have been released by the Soviet or Russian governments, most estimates put the figure between 8 and 20 million. Comparison of the 1926-39 census results suggests 5-10 million deaths in excess of what would be normal in the period, mostly through famine in 1931-34. The 1926 census shows the population of the Soviet Union at 147 million while the 1939 census at 162 million. (Another census from 1937 is known as the "wrecker's census"; its figures were suppressed.) The highest death estimates are 50 million from the 1920s to 1950s, but they are probably greatly exaggerated. A quote popularly attributed to Stalin is "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." (possibly said in response to Churchill at the Potsdam Conference in 1945). wikipedia.org 
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7th December 2004, 02:37
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http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter99-00/art6.html
http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/1...bbon31-42.html http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/1791/ http://www.polandsholocaust.org/Katyn1.html http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.../01/spotlight/ katyn... many millions poles was deported and or killed to siberia,fareast,kazakstan and turkmenistan....as u gave example tugay even to just survive the transport was amazing i have a cousin who was in siberia with no family for over 20 years and survived and returned to poland some time ago....today there about 70.000 poles still in kazakstan i dont know how many other places..to give an example how controled and brainwashed some off these polish people who had been let back to poland starting after communism fell in 1989.....they just came to poland and got an apartment there was furniture in the van...problem is all nigth they waited for authoreties to give the okay to take the new furniture they got from state..but nobody gave the ok...so they took it in themselfs without any official, worried next something migth happen to them but there didnt its natural for us here but for them pervert russian commies controled all...u see all these people where totaly controled by commie power and burecesy...imagine all ure life like that on farm or gulag etc...commies and nazis has the worst inferior complex imagined... http://www.polandsholocaust.org/katyndiary.html personal diary of Leon Gladun Polish officer..
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