|
Soviet mass deportations of the 1940s
| Poles/Jews (1940–41) |
380 000
|
| Volga Germans (Sept. 1941) |
366 000
|
| Chechens (Feb. 1944) |
362 000
|
| Meskhetians (Nov. 1944) |
200 000
|
| Crimean Tatars (May 1944) |
183 000
|
| Koreans (1937) |
172 000
|
| Ingush (Feb. 1944) |
134 000
|
| Kalmyks (Dec. 1943) |
92 000
|
| Karachai (Nov. 1943) |
68 000
|
| Poles (1936) |
60 000
|
| Finns (St Petersburg region, 1942) |
45 000
|
| Balkars (April 1944) |
37 000
|
| Moldovans (1949) |
36 000
|
| Black Sea Greeks (1949) |
36 000
|
| Other Soviet Germans (1941–52) |
843 000
|
| Other Crimean groups (1944) |
45 000
|
| Other Black Sea groups (1949) |
22 000
|
| Other N. Caucasus groups (1943–44) |
8 000
|
|
Total
|
3 089 000
|
Note: All statistics on the original deportations,
with the exception of the Meskhetians, are provided by A. Blum of
the Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques in Paris. Historical
details were supplied by Blum or taken from Les peuples deportes
d’Union Sovietique by J.–J. Marie. Population transfers
(amounting to several million people) linked to collectivization
and the Gulag labour camps rather than the ‘special settlers
regime’, are not included. Further large–scale deportations
took place from the Baltic states, Moldova and the Ukraine from
1944 until 1953.
Source: UNHCR (Public Information Section), Commonwealth
of Independent States conference on refugees and migrants, 30–31
May 1996.
Displacement
in the former Soviet region
The
State of the World’s Refugees
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