Colonization
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Colonization or colonisation is defined as "the act or process of sending people to live in and govern another country". The term "colonization" is sometimes used synonymously with the word "settlemen
A protest sign from the second half of the 20th century criticizing UN reaction to Soviet colonial expansion
A protest sign from the 1980s calling on the UN to abolish Soviet colonialism in the Baltic states
Sign on the JAO government headquarters
Photo of the first national flag assembled by a human on the Moon (Apollo 11, 1969). With colonization of space having been a critically discussed issue since the dawn of the space age, resulting in the Outer Space Treaty (1967), the flag was not to symbolize any territorial claims.
From 1930 to 1952, the government of the Soviet Union, on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy Beria, forcibly transferred populations of va
The empty Crimean Tatar village of Üsküt, near Alushta. Photo taken in 1945 after the complete deportation of its inhabitants
A train with Romanian refugees following the Soviet annexation of Bessarabia
A dwelling typical to some deportees into Siberia in a museum in Rumšiškės, Lithuania
Panas Kravtsov, participant of the Winter War and World War II, was deported to Kamchatka