"Most of the mass deportation occurred in 1930s and 1940s, when numerous ethnic groups were removed from their historical homelands. In this period, belonging to a certain ethnic group—rather than to a socio-economic class such as kulak (rich peasant) or texničeskaja intelligentsia (engineering professionals)—was sufficient to earn one the status of an “enemy of the people” (vrag naroda). Between 1935 and 1938 alone, no less than nine nationalities were deported: Poles, Germans, Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Koreans, Chinese, Kurds, and Iranians. Needless to say, not all of those who were forced onto ships or cattle trains “under the escort of NKVD frontier troops with fixed bayonets” (Martin 1998: 813) arrived to their final destination; this was not merely a “resettlement program”, as the Soviet propaganda machine depicted it, but a true government-run case of ethnic cleansing." Read the full article and see the map: geocurrents.info/place/russia-ukraine-and-caucasus/stalins-ethnic-deportations-and-the-gerrymandered-ethnic-map#ixzz2eZJYcqxo geocurrents.info/place/russia-ukraine-and-caucasus/stalins-ethnic-deportations-and-the-gerrymandered-ethnic-map
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:54:18 +0000
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