Operation Priboi
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Operation Priboi was the code name for the biggest illegal Stalin-era Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. Also known as the March deportation. More than 90,000 Estonian
Freight train cars used to transport deportees (on display in Naujoji Vilnia)
Estonian deportees in Siberia – 28% of deportees were children under the age of 16
Uskut
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
Operation Priboi
…Operation Priboi (Russian: операция «Прибой» – Operation "Tidal Wave") was the code name for the biggest illegal Stalin-era Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. Also known as the March deportation (Estonian: märtsiküüditamine; Latvian: marta deportācijas; Russian…
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
The departure of a train echelon carrying former prisoners of war and Ostarbeiters from a transit camp near Hamburg. May 31, 1945