Population transfer in the Soviet Union#Post-war expulsion and deportation

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Many Soviet farmers, regardless of their actual income or property, were labeled "Kulaks" for resisting collectivization. This term historically referred to relatively affluent farmers since the later Russian Empire. Kulak was the most common category of deported Soviet citizen.{{cite web |url=http://gulaghistory.org/exhibits/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/crimes.php |title=Gulag: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom |publisher=Gulaghistory.org |access-date=17 February 2015 |archive-date=5 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105114641/http://gulaghistory.org/exhibits/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/crimes.php |url-status=dead }} Resettlement of people officially designated as kulaks continued until early 1950, including several major waves: on 5 September 1951 the Soviet government ordered the deportation of kulaks from the Lithuanian SSR for "hostile actions against kolhozes", which was one of the last resettlements of that social group.{{sfn|Bugay|1996|p=166}}

Large numbers of "kulaks", regardless of their nationality, were resettled in Siberia and Central Asia. According to data from Soviet archives, which were published in 1990, 1,803,392 people were sent to labor colonies and camps in 1930 and 1931, and 1,317,022 reached the destination. Deportations on a smaller scale continued after 1931. The reported number of kulaks and their relatives who died in labour colonies from 1932 to 1940 was 389,521.[http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/courtois.html]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114220819/http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/courtois.html|date=14 January 2009}} The total number of the deported people is disputed. Conservative estimates assume that 1,679,528-1,803,392 people were deported,{{Sfn|Viola|2007|p=32}} while the highest estimates are that 15 million kulaks and their families were deported by 1937, and that during the deportation many people died, but the full number is not known.{{Cite book|title=Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar|last=Sebag Montefiore|first=Simon|publisher=W&N|year=2014|isbn=978-1780228358|pages=84|quote=By 1937, 18,5 million were collectivized but there were now only 19.9 million households: 5.7 million households, perhaps 15 million persons, had been deported, many of them dead}}

{{main|Flight of Poles from the USSR|Deportations of the Ingrian Finns|Deportation of Chinese in the Soviet Union|Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union|Deportation of the Terek Cossacks|Deportation of the Soviet Greeks}}

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During the 1930s, categorisation of so-called enemies of the people shifted from the usual Marxist–Leninist, class-based terms, such as kulak, to ethnic-based ones.{{Harvnb|Martin|1998}}. The partial removal of potentially trouble-making ethnic groups was a technique used consistently by Joseph Stalin during his government;{{Harvnb|Pohl|1999}}. between 1935 and 1938 alone, at least ten different nationalities were deported.{{Harvnb|Martin|1998|p=815}}. Poles, Germans, Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Koreans, Italians, Chinese, Kurds, and Iranians. Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union led to a massive escalation in Soviet ethnic cleansing.{{Harvnb|Martin|1998|p=820}}.

The Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union, originally conceived in 1926, initiated in 1930, and carried through in 1937, was the first mass transfer of an entire nationality in the Soviet Union.{{cite book|author=J. Otto Pohl|title=Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937–1949|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SnLANpCfDn4C|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-30921-2|pages=9–20}} Almost the entire Soviet population of ethnic Koreans (171,781 people) were forcibly moved from the Russian Far East to unpopulated areas of the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR in October 1937.[http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2009/063/22.html First deportation and the "Effective manager"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620231557/http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2009/063/22.html |date=20 June 2009 }}, Novaya gazeta, by Pavel Polyan and Nikolai Pobol

Looking at the entire period of Stalin's rule, one can list: Poles (1939–1941 and 1944–1945), Kola Norwegians (1940–1942), Romanians (1941 and 1944–1953), Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians (1941 and 1945–1949), Volga Germans (1941–1945), Ingrian Finns (1929–1931 and 1935–1939), Finnish people in Karelia (1940–1941, 1944), Crimean Tatars, Crimean Greeks (1944) and Caucasus Greeks (1949–50), Kalmyks, Balkars, Italians of Crimea, Karachays, Meskhetian Turks, Karapapaks, Far East Koreans (1937), Chechens and Ingushs (1944). 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.{{cite web|url=http://sovietinfo.tripod.com/WCR-German_Soviet.pdf |title=The Scale and Nature of German and Soviet Repression and Mass Killings, 1930–45 |author=Stephen Wheatcroft |publisher=Sovietinfo.tripod.com |access-date=17 February 2015}} It is estimated that between 1941 and 1949 nearly 3.3 million were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics.{{cite book|author=Philip Boobbyer|title=The Stalin Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYMsIE5KjmMC&pg=PA130|year=2000|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-18298-0|page=130}} By some estimates, up to 43% of the resettled population died of diseases and malnutrition.{{cite web|url=http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/USSR.TAB1B.GIF |format=GIF |title=Table 1B : Soviet Transit, Camp and Deportation Death Rates|publisher=Hawaii.edu |access-date=17 February 2015}}

{{See also|June deportation}}

Lavrentiy Beria, the Chief of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, was responsible for organizing and executing numerous deportations of ethnic minorities during that time.{{sfn|Mikaberidze|2015|p=191}}

After the Soviet invasion of Poland following the corresponding German invasion that marked the start of World War II in 1939, the Soviet Union annexed the eastern parts of Poland (known as Kresy in Poland or known as West Belarus and West Ukraine in the USSR as well as in Belarus and Ukraine) of the Second Polish Republic, which then became the western parts of the Belarusian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR. From 1939–1941, 1.45 million people who inhabited the region were deported by the Soviet regime. According to Polish historians, 63.1% of these people were Poles and 7.4% of them were Jews.Poland's Holocaust, Tadeusz Piotrowski, 1998 {{ISBN|0-7864-0371-3}}, P.14 Previously, it was believed that about 1.0 million Polish citizens died at the hands of the Soviets,Franciszek Proch, Poland's Way of the Cross, New York 1987 P.146 but recently, Polish historians, mostly based upon their study of Soviet archives, estimate that about 350,000 people who were deported from 1939–1945 died.{{cite web |url=http://www.projectinposterum.org/docs/european_WWII_casualties.htm |title=European WWII Casualties |publisher=Project InPosterum |access-date=17 February 2015 |archive-date=3 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003072010/http://www.projectinposterum.org/docs/european_WWII_casualties.htm |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.warsawuprising.com/paper/wrobel2.htm |title=Piotr Wrobel. The Devil's Playground: Poland in World War II |publisher=Warsawuprising.com |access-date=17 February 2015 |archive-date=27 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427172018/http://www.warsawuprising.com/paper/wrobel2.htm |url-status=dead }}

The same policy was implemented in the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (see Soviet deportations from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania).[http://www.am.gov.lv/en/latvia/History-of-Occupation/briefing-paper4/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709020049/http://www.am.gov.lv/en/latvia/History-of-Occupation/briefing-paper4/|date=9 July 2007}} More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been deported from the Baltic in 1940–1953. In addition, at least 75,000 were sent to the Gulag. 10% of the entire adult Baltic population was deported or sent to labor camps.[http://www.ahtg.net/TpA/baltstat.html]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420175950/http://www.ahtg.net/TpA/baltstat.html|date=20 April 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rel.ee/eng/communism_crimes.htm |title=Taigi veebimüük | Taig.ee |publisher=Rel.ee |access-date=17 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010301223347/http://www.rel.ee/eng/communism_crimes.htm |archive-date=1 March 2001 }} In 1989, native Latvians represented only 52% of the population of their own country. In Estonia, the figure was 62%.Laar, M. (2009). The Power of Freedom. Central and Eastern Europe after 1945. Centre for European Studies, p. 36. {{ISBN|978-9949-18-858-1}} In Lithuania, the situation was better because the migrants sent to that country actually moved to the former area of Eastern Prussia (now Kaliningrad) which, contrary to the original plans, never became part of Lithuania.Misiunas, Romuald J. and Rein Taagepera. (1983). Baltic States: The Years of Dependence, 1940–1980. University of California Press. Hurst and Berkeley.

Likewise, Romanians from Chernivtsi Oblast and Moldavia had been deported in great numbers which range from 200,000 to 400,000.{{cite web |url=http://www.east-west-wg.org/cst/cst-mold/bessara.html |title=east-west-wg.org |publisher=east-west-wg.org |access-date=17 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913005040/http://www.east-west-wg.org/cst/cst-mold/bessara.html |archive-date=13 September 2014 }} (See Soviet deportations from Bessarabia.)

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{{see also|Deportation of the Crimean Tatars|Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush|Deportation of the Meskhetian Turks|Deportation of the Karachays|Deportation of the Balkars|Deportation of the Kalmyks}}

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During World War II, particularly in 1943–44, the Soviet government conducted a series of deportations. Some 1.9 million people were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics. According to the Soviets, of approximately 183,000 Crimean Tatars, 20,000 or 10% of the entire population served in German battalions,Alexander Statiev, "The Nature of Anti-Soviet Armed Resistance, 1942–44", Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (Spring 2005) 285–318 though the figure in question is derived from a single SS report on how many individuals were expected to be willing to collaborate and is contradicted by official statistical records, which suggest the number was actually around 3,000, with only 800 being volunteers.{{Cite web |title=How many Crimean Tatars actually served the Nazis |url=https://en.ua2.news/773-how-many-crimean-tatars-actually-served-the-nazis.html |access-date=2023-10-28 |website=UA2.news — independent analytical online magazine |language=ru}} Consequently, Tatars too were transferred en masse by the Soviets after the war.A. Bell-Fialkoff, A Brief History of Ethnic Cleansing. Foreign Affairs, 1993, 110–122 Vyacheslav Molotov justified this decision saying "The fact is that during the war we received reports about mass treason. Battalions of Caucasians opposed us at the fronts and attacked us from the rear. It was a matter of life and death; there was no time to investigate the details. Of course innocents suffered. But I hold that given the circumstances, we acted correctly."Chuev, Feliks. Molotov Remembers. Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1993, p. 195 Historian Ian Grey writes "Towards the Moslem peoples, the Germans pursued a benign, almost paternalistic policy. The Karachai, Balkars, Ingush, Chechen, Kalmucks, and Tatars of the Crimea all displayed pro-German sympathies in some degree. It was only the hurried withdrawal of the Germans from the Caucasus after the battle of Stalingrad that prevented their organizing the Moslem people for effective anti-Soviet action. The Germans boasted loudly, however, that they had left a strong "fifth column" behind them in the Caucasus."Grey, Ian. Stalin, Man of History. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979, p. 373

Volga Germans[http://www.volgagermans.net/volgagermans/Volga%20German%20Deportation.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806104429/http://www.volgagermans.net/volgagermans/Volga%20German%20Deportation.htm|date=6 August 2009}} and seven (non-Slavic) nationalities of the Crimea and the northern Caucasus were deported: the Crimean Tatars,[http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/statshist.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015035819/http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/statshist.html|date=15 October 2009}} Kalmyks, Chechens,{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3509933.stm |title=Europe | Remembering Stalin's deportations |work=BBC News |date=23 February 2004 |access-date=17 February 2015}} Ingush, Balkars, Karachays, and Meskhetian Turks. All Crimean Tatars were deported en masse, in a form of collective punishment, on 18 May 1944 as special settlers to Uzbekistan and other distant parts of the Soviet Union. According to NKVD data, nearly 20% died in exile during the following year and a half. Crimean Tatar activists have reported this figure to be nearly 46%.{{cite news|author=Jean-Christophe Peuch |url=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/05/1350f316-420a-4a90-b42e-b59fe9fcc8e5.html |title=World War II – 60 Years After: For Victims of Stalin's Deportations, War Lives On |newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=8 April 2008 |publisher=Rferl.org |access-date=17 February 2015}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_reports/1995670.stm |title=MEDIA REPORTS | Crimean Tatars mark wartime deportations |work=BBC News |date=18 May 2002 |access-date=17 February 2015}} (See Deportation of Crimean Tatars.)

Other minorities evicted from the Black Sea coastal region included Bulgarians, Crimean Greeks, Romanians and Armenians.

The Soviet Union also deported people from occupied territories such as the Baltic states, Poland, and territories occupied by Germans. A study published by the German government in 1974 estimated the number of German civilian victims of crimes during expulsion of Germans after World War II between 1945 and 1948 to be over 600,000, with about 400,000 deaths in the areas east of the Oder and Neisse (ca. 120,000 in acts of direct violence, mostly by Soviet troops but also by Poles, 60,000 in Polish and 40,000 in Soviet concentration camps or prisons mostly from hunger and disease, and 200,000 deaths among civilian deportees to forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union), 130,000 in Czechoslovakia (thereof 100,000 in camps) and 80,000 in Yugoslavia (thereof 15,000 to 20,000 from violence outside of and in camps and 59,000 deaths from hunger and disease in camps).

By January 1953, there were 988,373 special settlers residing in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, including 444,005 Germans, 244,674 Chechens, 95,241 Koreans, 80,844 Ingush, and the others. As a consequence of these deportations, Kazakhs comprised only 30% of their native Republic's population.{{sfn|Pavlenko|2008|p=170}}

After World War II, the German population of the Kaliningrad Oblast, formerly East Prussia, was expelled and the depopulated area resettled by Soviet citizens, mainly by Russians. Between 1944 and 1953 a variety of groups from the Black Sea region — Kurds, Iranians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, and Hemshins were deported away from the Soviet border regions in Crimea and the Transcaucasus.Bugai, Nikolai FL, and Berija I. Stalinu. "Soglasno vashemu ukazaniiu." O deportatsii narodov SSSR 30 (1995).

Poland and Soviet Ukraine conducted population exchanges; Poles who resided east of the established Poland–Soviet border were deported to Poland (c.a. 2,100,000 people) and Ukrainians that resided west of the established Poland-Soviet Union border were deported to Soviet Ukraine. Population transfer to Soviet Ukraine occurred from September 1944 to April 1946 (ca. 450,000 people). Some Ukrainians (ca. 200,000 people) left southeast Poland more or less voluntarily (between 1944 and 1945).{{cite web |url=http://www.migrationeducation.org/13.0.html |title=MIGRATION CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION – Forced migration in the 20th century |publisher=Migrationeducation.org |access-date=17 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151021014423/http://www.migrationeducation.org/13.0.html |archive-date=21 October 2015 }}

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There were several notable campaigns of targeted non-penal workforce transfer.

• Twenty-five-thousanders
• NKVD labor columns
• Virgin Lands campaign
• Baku oil industry workers transfer: during the German-Soviet War, in October 1942, about 10,000 workers from the petroleum sites of Baku, together with their families, were transferred to several sites with potential oil production (the "Second Baku" area (Volga-Ural oil field), Kazakhstan and Sakhalin), in face of the potential German threat, although Germany failed to seize Baku.
• Khetagurovite Campaign

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When the war ended in May 1945, thousands of Soviet citizens were forcefully repatriated (against their will) into the USSR.The United States and Forced Repatriation of Soviet Citizens, 1944–47 by Mark Elliott Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 88, No. 2 (Jun. 1973), pp. 253–275 On 11 February 1945, at the conclusion of the Yalta Conference, the United States and United Kingdom signed a Repatriation Agreement with the USSR.{{Cite web |last=Hornberger |first=Jacob G. |date=1995 |title=Repatriation -- The Dark Side of World War II, Part 6 |url=http://www.fff.org/freedom/0895a.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825141441/http://www.fff.org/freedom/0895a.asp |archive-date=2007-08-25 |access-date= |website=The Future of Freedom Foundation}}

The interpretation of this Agreement resulted in the forcible repatriation of all Soviet citizens regardless of their wishes. Allied authorities ordered their military forces in Europe to deport to the Soviet Union millions of former residents of the USSR (some of whom collaborated with the Germans), including numerous people who had left Russia and established different citizenships for up to decades prior. The forced repatriation operations took place from 1945 to 1947.[http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1988&month=12] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207142426/http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1988&month=12|date=7 February 2012}}

At the end of World War II, more than 5 million "displaced people" from the Soviet Union survived in German captivity. About 3 million had been forced laborers (Ostarbeiter){{cite web|url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1757323,00.html |title=Final Compensation Pending for Former Nazi Forced Laborers | Germany | DW.DE | 27.10.2005 |publisher=Dw-world.de |access-date=17 February 2015}} in Germany and occupied territories.[http://summeroftruth.org/enemy/barracks.html]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060809030800/http://summeroftruth.org/enemy/barracks.html|date=9 August 2006}}{{cite web|url=http://www.collectinghistory.net/ostarbeiter/index.html |title=The Nazi Ostarbeiter (Eastern Worker) Program |publisher=Collectinghistory.net |date=26 June 1922 |access-date=17 February 2015}}

Surviving POWs, about 1.5 million, repatriated Ostarbeiter{{Clarify|reason=Were there 1.5 million POWs or 1.5 million Ostarbeiter? There are far too many commas in this sentence.|date=November 2022}}, and other displaced people, totalling more than 4,000,000 people were sent to special NKVD filtration camps (not Gulag). By 1946, 80% civilians and 20% of PoWs were freed, 5% of civilians, and 43% of PoWs re-drafted, 10% of civilians and 22% of PoWs were sent to labor battalions, and 2% of civilians and 15% of the PoWs (226,127 out of 1,539,475 total) transferred to the NKVD, i.e. the Gulag.("Военно-исторический журнал" ("Military-Historical Magazine"), 1997, No.5. page 32)Земское В.Н. К вопросу о репатриации советских граждан. 1944–1951 годы // История СССР. 1990. No. 4 (Zemskov V.N. On repatriation of Soviet citizens). Istoriya SSSR., 1990, No.4

On 17 January 1956, a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was issued on lifting restrictions on the Poles evicted in 1936; on 17 March 1956 for the Kalmyks; 27 March for the Greeks, Bulgarians, and Armenians; 18 April for the Crimean Tatars, Balkars, Meskhetian Turks, Kurds, and Hemshins; 16 July for the Chechens, Ingush, and Karachais (all without the right to return to their homeland).

In February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, in his speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", condemned the deportations as a violation of Leninist principles:

{{cquote|All the more monstrous are the acts whose initiator was Stalin and which are violations of the basic Leninist principles of the national policy of the Soviet state. We refer to the mass deportations from their native places of whole nations... This deportation action was not dictated by any military considerations. Thus, already at the end of 1943, when there occurred a permanent breakthrough at the fronts... a decision was taken and executed concerning the deportation of all the Karachay from the lands on which they lived. In the same period, at the end of December 1943, the same lot befell whole population of the Autonomous Kalmyk Republic. In March all the Chechen and Ingush peoples were deported and the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic was liquidated. In April 1944, all Balkars were deported to faraway places from the territory of the Kalbino-Balkar Autonomous Republic and the Republic itself was renamed the Autonomous Kabardin Republic.{{Sfn|Gross|1998|p=37}}}}

In 1957 and 1958, the national autonomies of Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Karachais, and Balkars were restored; these peoples were allowed to return to their historical territories. The return of repressed peoples was not carried out without difficulties, which both then and subsequently led to national conflicts (thus, clashes began between returning Chechens and the Russians who settled during their exile in the Grozny Oblast; Ingush in the Prigorodny District, populated by Ossetians and transferred to the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic).

However, a significant number of the repressed peoples (Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Meskhetian Turks, Greeks, Koreans, etc.) had still received neither national autonomy nor the right to return to their historical homeland.

On 29 August 1964, 23 years after the start of the deportation, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, by its Decree of 29 August 1964 No. 2820-VI, abolished sweeping accusations against the German population living in the Volga region. A decree that completely lifted restrictions on freedom of movement and confirmed the right of Germans to return to the places they were expelled was adopted in 1972.

In the mid-1960s, the process of rehabilitation of the "punished peoples" was almost stopped.{{cite book |title=Репрессии народов СССР: последствия трагедии. Сборник материалов круглого стола |trans-title=Repression of the peoples of the USSR: consequences of the tragedy. Collection of materials from the round table |language=ru |url=http://www.samddn.ru/attachments/403_repressii-narodov-sssr-posledstvija-tragedii.pdf |editor-first=A. V. |editor-last=Yastrebov |location=Samara |publisher=ГУСО ДДН |date=2007 |archivedate=2014-03-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327181616/http://www.samddn.ru/attachments/403_repressii-narodov-sssr-posledstvija-tragedii.pdf}}

According to a secret Soviet Ministry of Interior report dated December 1965, for the period 1940–1953, 46,000 people were deported from Moldova, 61,000 from Belarus, 571,000 from Ukraine, 119,000 from Lithuania, 53,000 from Latvia, and 33,000 from Estonia.{{sfn|Mawdsley|1998|p=73}}

During the Soviet era, the problems which were experienced by people who were deported from their historic places of residence after they were accused of aiding the enemies of the Soviet state did not become the subject of public attention until the years of perestroika. One of the first steps towards the restoration of historic justice in relation to repressed peoples was the publication of the Declaration of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 14 November 1989 "On recognizing illegal and criminal repressive acts against peoples subjected to forced resettlement and ensuring their rights". In accordance with this decree, all repressed peoples were rehabilitated, and at the state level, repressive acts against them which were in the form of a policy of slander, genocide, forced relocation, the abolition of national-state entities, and the establishment of a regime of terror and violence in places of special settlements were all recognized as illegal and criminal measures.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

On 26 April 1991, the RSFSR Law No. 1107-I "On the rehabilitation of repressed peoples" was adopted, which recognized the deportation of peoples as a "policy of slander and genocide" (Article 2). Among other things, the law recognized the right of repressed peoples to restore the territorial integrity that existed before the unconstitutional policy of forcibly redrawing borders, to restore national-state formations that existed before their abolition, and to compensate for damage caused by the state.{{cite web |url=http://base.garant.ru/10200365/ |title=Закон РСФСР от 26.04.1991 № 1107-I «О реабилитации репрессированных народов» |trans-title=Law of the RSFSR dated 26 April 1991 No. 1107-I "On the rehabilitation of repressed peoples" |language=ru |website=base.garant.ru |accessdate=2022-05-06 |url-status=live |archive-date=2019-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327231422/http://base.garant.ru/10200365/}}

Mukharbek Didigov called this law a triumph of historical justice. In his opinion, the fact that the state recognizes repression as illegal, inhumane actions directed against innocent people is an indicator of the development of democratic institutions, which has a special moral significance for deported peoples. According to him, the law gives confidence that this will not happen again.{{cite web |url=http://ingnews.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8897:--l---r---&catid=2:2009-01-27-16-50-00&Itemid=5 |title=Закон "О реабилитации репрессированных народов" — торжество исторической справедливости |trans-title=The Law "On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples" is a triumph of historical justice |last=Didigov |first=Mukharbek |author-link=Mukharbek Didigov |date=2012-05-02 |publisher=ingnews.ru |language=ru |accessdate=2013-03-20 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6FHHLnnHf?url=http://ingnews.ru/index.php?option=com_content |archivedate=2013-03-21}}

In furtherance of the law "On the rehabilitation of repressed peoples", several legislative acts were adopted, including the resolution of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 16 July 1992 "On the rehabilitation of the Cossacks"; the Resolution of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 1 April 1993 "On the rehabilitation of Russian Koreans"; the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 24 January 1992 "On priority measures for the practical restoration of the legal rights of the repressed peoples of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic"; the Resolution of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 29 June 1993 "On the rehabilitation of Russian Finns", etc.

15 years after recognition in the USSR, in February 2004, the European Parliament also recognized the deportation of Chechens and Ingush in 1944 as an act of genocide.{{cite web |url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2004:098E:0182:0193:EN:PDF |title=EU policy towards South Caucasus |language=en |website=eur-lex.europa.eu |date=2004-02-26 |accessdate=2022-05-06 |url-status=live |archive-date=2017-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824234738/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2004:098E:0182:0193:EN:PDF}}

On 24 September 2012, deputies from United Russia introduced a bill on additional assistance to representatives of repressed peoples to the State Duma. The bill's authors proposed allocating 23 billion rubles from the federal budget to help political prisoners. According to the authors, this money should be used for monthly payments and compensation for lost property in the amount of up to 35 thousand rubles.{{cite web |url=http://www.vz.ru/news/2012/9/24/599539.html |title=В Госдуму внесён законопроект о дополнительной помощи репрессированным народам |trans-title=A bill on additional assistance to repressed peoples has been introduced to the State Duma |date=2012-09-24 |publisher=Vzglyad |accessdate=2013-03-20 |archive-date=2012-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926234307/http://vz.ru/news/2012/9/24/599539.html |url-status=live}}

Several historians, including Russian historian Pavel Polian{{sfn|Polian|2004|pp=125–126}} and Lithuanian Associate Research Scholar at Yale University Violeta Davoliūtė{{sfn|Davoliūtė|2014|p=29}} consider these mass deportations of civilians a crime against humanity. They are also often described as Soviet ethnic cleansing.{{sfn|Morris|2004|p=751–766}}{{sfn|Kotljarchuk|2014|p=53}}{{Sfn|Ellman|2002|p=1159}} Terry Martin of Harvard University writes that "the same principles that informed Soviet nation building could and did lead to ethnic cleansing and ethnic terror against a limited set of stigmatized nationalities, while leaving nation-building policies in place for the majority of nonstigmatized nationalities".{{sfn|Martin|1998|p=816–817}}

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Other academics and countries go further to call the deportations of the Crimean Tatars, Chechens and Ingushs genocide. Raphael Lemkin, a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent who coined the term genocide himself, assumed that genocide was perpetrated in the context of the mass deportation of the Chechens, Ingush, Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks and Karachay.Courtois, Stephane (2010). "Raphael Lemkin and the Question of Genocide under Communist Regimes". In Bieńczyk-Missala, Agnieszka; Dębski, Sławomir (eds.). Rafał Lemkin. PISM. pp. 121–122. {{ISBN|9788389607850}}. LCCN 2012380710.{{efn|Professor Lyman H. Legters argued that the Soviet penal system, combined with its resettlement policies, should count as genocidal since the sentences were borne most heavily specifically on certain ethnic groups, and that a relocation of these ethnic groups, whose survival depended on ties to their particular homeland, "had a genocidal effect remediable only by restoration of the group to its homeland".{{sfn|Legters|1992|p=104}} Soviet dissidents Ilya Gabay{{sfn|Fisher|2014|p=150}} and Pyotr Grigorenko{{sfn|Allworth|1998|p=216}} both classified the population transfers of the Crimean Tatars as genocide. Historian Timothy Snyder included it in a list of Soviet policies that "meet the standard of genocide".{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/05/holocaust-secondworldwar|title=The fatal fact of the Nazi-Soviet pact|last=Snyder|first=Timothy|date=2010-10-05|website=The Guardian|access-date=2018-08-06}} French historian and expert on communist studies Nicolas Werth,{{Sfn|Werth|2008|p=413}} German historian Philipp Ther,{{Sfn|Ther|2014|p=118}} Professor Anthony James Joes,{{Sfn|Joes|2010|p=357}} American journalist Eric Margolis,{{Sfn|Margolis|2008|p=277}} Canadian political scientist Adam Jones,{{Sfn|Jones|2016|p=203}} professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Brian Glyn Williams,{{Sfn|Williams|2015|p=67}} scholars Michael Fredholm{{Sfn|Fredholm|2000|p=315}} and Fanny E. Bryan{{sfn|Bryan|1984|p=99}} also considered the population transfers of the Chechens and Ingush as the crime of genocide. German investigative journalist Lutz Kleveman compared the deportations of Chechens and Ingush to a "slow genocide".{{sfn|Kleveman|2002|p=87}}}} The deportation of Crimean Tatars is recognized as genocide by the parliaments of Ukraine,Radio Free Europe, 21 January 2016 Latvia,{{Cite web |url=https://www.saeima.lv/en/news/saeima-news/27891-foreign-affairs-committee-adopts-a-statement-on-the-75th-anniversary-of-deportation-of-crimean-tatars-recognising-the-event-as-genocide |title=Foreign Affairs Committee adopts a statement on the 75th anniversary of deportation of Crimean Tatars, recognising the event as genocide |date=24 April 2019 |publisher=Saeima |access-date=11 May 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/latvian-lawmakers-label-1944-deportation-of-crimean-tatars-as-act-of-genocide/29933467.html|title=Latvian Lawmakers Label 1944 Deportation Of Crimean Tatars As Act Of Genocide|date=2019-05-09|website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|access-date=2019-05-10}} Lithuania,{{Cite news |url=https://www.baltictimes.com/lithuanian_parliament_recognizes_soviet_crimes_against_crimean_tatars_as_genocide/|title=Lithuanian parliament recognizes Soviet crimes against Crimean Tatars as genocide |date=6 June 2019 |newspaper=The Baltic Times |access-date=6 June 2019}} and Canada.{{Cite web | url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/foreign-affairs-committee-passes-motion-by-wrzesnewskyj-on-crimean-tatar-genocide/ | title=Foreign Affairs Committee passes motion by Wrzesnewskyj on Crimean Tatar genocide | access-date=28 November 2019 | archive-date=19 April 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419000357/http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/foreign-affairs-committee-passes-motion-by-wrzesnewskyj-on-crimean-tatar-genocide/ | url-status=dead }} The European Parliament recognized the deportation of Chechens and Ingush as a crime of genocide in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.unpo.org/article/438|publisher=Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization|title=Chechnya: European Parliament recognises the genocide of the Chechen People in 1944|date=27 February 2004|access-date=23 May 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604125012/http://www.unpo.org/article/438|archive-date=4 June 2012|df=mdy-all}} The separatist government of Chechnya also recognized it as genocide.{{sfn|Tishkov|2004|p=30}}

Some academics disagree with the classification of deportation as genocide. Professor Alexander Statiev argues that Stalin's administration did not have a conscious genocidal intent to exterminate the various deported peoples, but that Soviet "political culture, poor planning, haste, and wartime shortages were responsible for the genocidal death rate among them." He rather considers these deportations an example of Soviet assimilation of "unwanted nations."{{sfn|Statiev|2010|pp=243–264}} According to Professor Amir Weiner, "...It was their territorial identity and not their physical existence or even their distinct ethnic identity that the regime sought to eradicate."{{sfn|Weiner|2002|pp=44–53}} According to Professor Francine Hirsch, "although the Soviet regime practiced politics of discrimination and exclusion, it did not practice what contemporaries thought of as racial politics." To her, these mass deportations were based on the concept that nationalities were "sociohistorical groups with a shared consciousness and not racial-biological groups".{{sfn|Hirsch|2002|pp=30–43}} In contrast to this view, Jon K. Chang contends that the deportations had been in fact based on ethnicity and that "social historians" in the West have failed to champion the rights of marginalized ethnicities in the Soviet Union.{{cite journal |last1=K. Chang |first1=Jon |title=Ethnic Cleansing and Revisionist Russian and Soviet History |journal= Academic Questions|date=8 April 2019 |volume=32 |issue=2 |page=270 |doi=10.1007/s12129-019-09791-8 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |s2cid=150711796 }}

Harvard's Terry Martin suggested a concept of "Soviet xenophobia", which he defines as the ideologically motivated "exaggerated Soviet fear of foreign influence and foreign contamination". This theory espouses the belief that the Soviet Union ethnically cleansed the border peoples of the USSR from 1937 to 1951 (including the Caucasus and the Crimea) to remove Soviet nationalities whose political allegiances were allegedly suspect or inimical to Soviet socialism. In this view, the USSR did not practice direct negative ethnic animus or discrimination ("In neither case did the Soviet state itself conceive of these deportations as ethnic."){{sfn|Martin|1998|p=829}} Political ideology of all Soviet peoples was the primary consideration.{{sfn|Chang|2018a|p=174}} Martin stated that the various deportations of the Soviet border peoples were simply the "culmination of a gradual shift from predominantly class-based terror", which began during collectivization (1932–33), to "national/ethnic" based terror (1937).{{sfn|Martin|1998|p=852}} Accordingly, Martin further claimed that the nationalities deportations were "ideological, not ethnic. It was spurred by an ideological hatred and suspicion of foreign capitalist governments, not the national hatred of non-Russians."{{sfn|Martin|1998|pp=829,860}} His theory entitled "Soviet xenophobia" paints the USSR and the Stalinist regime as having practiced and carried out in politics, education and Soviet society relatively pure socialism and Marxist practices. This view has been supported by many of the major historians of the USSR, those in Russian and even Korean studies such as Fitzpatrick, Suny, F. Hirsch, A. Weiner and A. Park.{{Cite journal |last=Chang |first=Jon K. |title=East Asians in Soviet Intelligence and the Chinese-Lenin School of the Russian Far East |volume=9 |issue=1|page=64|journal=Eurasia Border Review |year=2018b |url=https://www.academia.edu/38207437 |issn=1884-9466}} A. Park, in her archival work, found very little evidence that Koreans had proven or were able to prove their loyalties beyond a shadow of a doubt, thus 'necessitating' deportation from the border areas.{{sfn|Park|2019|pp=241-243}} Robert Conquest stated that these nationalities were transferred because "in Stalin's view, either welcomed or not opposed the Germans".{{cite book |last1=Conquest |first1=Robert |title=Stalin: Breaker of Nations |date=1991 |page=258}}

In contrast, the views of J. Otto Pohl and Jon K. Chang affirm that the Soviet Union, its officials and everyday citizens produced and reproduced (from the Tsarist era) racialized (primordialist) views, policies and tropes regarding their non-Slavic peoples.{{sfn|Chang|2018|pp=174-179}}{{sfn|Pohl|1999|pp=1-9,137}}{{sfn|Chang|2018|pp=62-65}} Norman M. Naimark believed that the Stalinist "nationalities deportations" were forms of national-cultural genocide. The deportations at the very least changed the cultures, way of life and world views of the deported peoples as the majority were sent to Soviet Central Asia and Siberia.{{sfn|Naimark|2010|pp=25-29, 135-137}}

"Primordialism" is simply another way of saying ethnic chauvinism or racism because the said "primordial" peoples or ethnic groups are seen as possessing "permanent" traits and characteristics, which they pass on, one generation to the next. Both Chang and Martin agree that the Stalinist regime took a turn towards primordializing nationality in the 1930s.{{sfn|Chang|2018b|p=65}}{{sfn|Martin|1999|pp=350,352,357-358}} After the "primordialist turn" by the Stalinist regime in the mid-1930s, the Soviet Greeks, Finns, Poles, Chinese, Koreans, Germans, Crimean Tatars and the other deported peoples were seen to have loyalties to their titular nations (or to non-Soviet polities) as the Soviet state in the 1930s regarded nationality (ethnicity) and political loyalty (ideology) as a primordial equivalents.{{sfn|Chang|2018b|p=65}} Thus, it was no surprise that the regime would choose "deportation."

Martin's different interpretation is that the Soviet regime was not deporting the various diaspora peoples because of their nationality. Rather, nationality (ethnicity or phenotype) served as a referent or a signifier for the political ideology of the deported peoples.{{sfnp|Chang|2018|p=174}}{{sfn|Martin|1998|p=860}} Amir Weiner's argument is similar to Martin's, substituting "territorial identity" for Martin's "xenophobia."{{sfn|Weiner|2002|p=46}}{{sfn|Chang|2019|pp=266-67}} The "Soviet xenophobia" argument also does not hold up semantically. Xenophobia is the fear by natives of invasion or loss of territory and influence to foreigners. The "Russians" and other Eastern Slavs are coming into the territory of the natives (the deported peoples) who were simply Soviet national minorities. They were not foreign elements. The Russian empire was not the "native" state, polity or government in the Asian Far East, the Caucasus and many other regions of the deported peoples.{{sfn|Chang|2019|pp=266-67}} Koguryo followed by Parhae/Balhae/Bohai were the first states of the Russian Far East.{{sfn|Stephan|1994|pp=1-50}}{{sfn|Pai|2000}} John J. Stephan called the "erasure" of Chinese and Korean history (state-formation, cultural contributions, peoples) to the region by the USSR and Russia—the intentional "genesis of a 'blank spot.' "{{sfn|Stephan|1994|pp=17-19}}

Chang notes that all forms of racism could be explained away in a like manner. Regardless, all of the Stalinist orders for "total deportation" of the thirteen nationalities (from 1937 to 1951) list each of the peoples by ethnicity as well as a charge of treason. Soviet law required that one's guilt or innocence (for treason) be determined individually and in a court of law prior to sentencing (per 1936 Constitution). Finally, on the other end of the "primordial" spectrum, the Eastern Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians) were seen as inherently more loyal and more representative of the Soviet people.{{sfn|Chang|2018|pp=189-193}} This is clearly a deviation from socialism and Marxist–Leninism.{{sfn|Chang|2018|pp=188, 191-192}}

The number of deaths attributed to deported people living in exile is considerable. The causes for such demographic catastrophe lie in harsh climates of Siberia and Kazakhstan, disease, malnutrition, work exploitation which lasted for up to 12 hours daily as well as the lack of any kind of appropriate housing or accommodation for the deported people. Overall, it is assumed that the fatalities caused by this relocation upheaval range from 800,000{{Sfn|Grieb|2014|p=930}} up to 1,500,000.{{Sfn|Werth|2004|p=73}}

The partial documentation in the NKVD archives indicated that the mortality rates of these deported ethnic groups were considerable. The Meskhetian Turks had a 14.6% mortality rate, the Kalmyks 17.4%, people from Crimea 19.6%, while the Chechens, the Ingush and other people from the Northern Caucasus had the highest losses reaching 23.7%.{{sfn|Buckley|Ruble|Hofmann|2008|p=207}} The NKVD did not record excess deaths for the deported Soviet Koreans, but their mortality rate estimates range from 10%{{cite news| work=Gwangju News| url=https://gwangjunewsgic.com/features/korea-in-the-world-uzbekistan/| title=Korea: In the World – Uzbekistan |date=10 October 2013| access-date=23 May 2021}} to 16.3%.{{sfn|Chang|2018|p=157}}

Additionally, around 300,000–360,000 Germans deported after World War II from occupied territories in Eastern Europe perished, but the Soviet Army was not the sole perpetrator of these expulsions, since other European countries also participated.

• Against Their Will
• Demographic engineering
• Doctors' plot: Speculation about a planned deportation of Jews
• Ethnic cleansing
• Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Jewish settlement in the region
• List of ethnic cleansing campaigns

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• Polian, Pavel (Павел Полян), Deportations in the USSR: An index of operations with list of corresponding directives and legislation, Russian Academy of Science.
• Павел Полян, Не по своей воле... (Pavel Polyan, Not by Their Own Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR), ОГИ Мемориал, Moscow, 2001, {{ISBN|5-94282-007-4}}
• 28 августа 1941 г. Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР "О выселении немцев из районов Поволжья".
• 1943 г. Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР "О ликвидации Калмыцкой АССР и образовании Астраханской области в составе РСФСР". *Постановление правительства СССР от 12 января 1949 г. "О выселении с территории Литвы, Латвии и Эстонии кулаков с семьями, семей бандитов и националистов, находящихся на нелегальном положении, убитых при вооруженных столкновениях и осужденных, легализованных бандитов, продолжающих вести вражескую работу, и их семей, а также семей репрессированных пособников и бандитов"
• Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 13 декабря 1955 г. "О снятии ограничений в правовом положении с немцев и членов их семей, находящихся на спецпоселении".
• 17 марта 1956 г. Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР "О снятии ограничений в правовом положении с калмыков и членов их семей, находящихся на спецпоселении".
• 1956 г. Постановление ЦК КПСС "О восстановлении национальной автономии калмыцкого, карачаевского, балкарского, чеченского и ингушского народов".
• 29 августа 1964 г. Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР "О внесении изменений в Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 28 августа 1941 г. о переселении немцев, проживающих в районах Поволжья".
• 1991 г: Laws of Russian Federation: "О реабилитации репрессированных народов", "О реабилитации жертв политических репрессий".

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• State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss: On Crimean Tatars (See also [https://web.archive.org/web/20090211130849/http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/tatardep2.html Three answers to the Decree No. 5859ss])

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• [http://www.latvians.com/en/Reading/TheseNamesAccuse/ThNA-00-OurFamilies.php These Names Accuse (Soviet Deportations in Latvia)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130918113428/http://latvians.com/en/Reading/TheseNamesAccuse/ThNA-00-OurFamilies.php |date=18 September 2013 }}
• [http://www.latvians.com/en/Reading/TheseNamesAccuse/ThNA-08-Appendix-1.php Baltic Deportation Instructions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530022935/http://www.latvians.com/en/Reading/TheseNamesAccuse/ThNA-08-Appendix-1.php |date=30 May 2013 }} – Full text, English
• [https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/depo.html DEPORTATIONS] Revelations from the Russian Archives at the Library of Congress
• [http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=438 Chechnya: European Parliament recognises the genocide of the Chechen People in 1944] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313052815/http://unpo.org/article.php?id=438 |date=13 March 2016 }}
• [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3955/is_n8_v48/ai_19298459/pg_3 The scale and nature of German and Soviet repression and mass killings, 1930–45]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205122/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2004/0147/biblio01.php Эдиев Д.М. Демографические потери депортированных народов СССР. Ставрополь, 2003]
• [http://tadeuszromer.com Polish deportees in the USSR] List compiled in 1941 by Tadeusz Romer, the Polish ambassador to Japan

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