Population transfer in the Soviet Union
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Population transfer in the Soviet Union refers to forced transfer of various groups from the 1930s up to the 1950s ordered by Joseph Stalin and may be classified into the following broad categories: deportations of "anti-Soviet" categories of population (often classified as "enemies of workers"), deportations of entire nationalities, labor force transfer, and organized migrations in opposite directions to fill the ethnically cleansed territories.
In most cases, their destinations were underpopulated remote areas (see Forced settlements in the Soviet Union). This includes deportations to the Soviet Union of non-Soviet citizens from countries outside the USSR. It has been estimated that, in their entirety, internal forced migrations affected at least 6 million people.
See also
- On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples
- Forced settlements in the Soviet Union
- Pre-World War II transfers
- World War II evacuation and expulsion
- June deportation (Baltics)
- Kalmyk deportations of 1943
- Nazi–Soviet population transfers
- Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union
- Evacuation of East Prussia
- Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
- Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
- Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
- Operation Lentil (Caucasus) (Checheno-Ingushetia)
- Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union
- Polish population transfers (1944–1946)
- Post-World War II transfers
- Against Their Will
