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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: TomSea on March 25, 2019, 05:35:49 pm

Title: 'Undesirable Elements': How Stalin Deported Nearly 100,000 From The Baltics In Operation 'Priboi'
Post by: TomSea on March 25, 2019, 05:35:49 pm

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'Undesirable Elements': How Stalin Deported Nearly 100,000 From The Baltics In Operation 'Priboi'
On March 25, 1949, the Soviet government deported nearly 100,000 people from occupied Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to Siberia.
https://www.rferl.org/a/undesirable-elements-how-stalin-deported-nearly-100-000-from-the-baltics-in-operation-priboi-/29841293.html (https://www.rferl.org/a/undesirable-elements-how-stalin-deported-nearly-100-000-from-the-baltics-in-operation-priboi-/29841293.html)

More reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi)

The next time, someone says something like Eastern Ukraine has all of these Russian speakers for example and they still aren't in the majority and even the people there don't want the war, remind them of how the Kremlin moved people around to try to obtain a dominance over the populations.