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
Mass operations of the NKVD
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Mass operations of the People's Comissariate of Internal Affairs were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people. As a rule, they were carried out according to the c
A 31 January 1938 resolution by Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to extend the National operations of the NKVD until 15 April for the destruction of Polish, Latvian, German, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Iranian, Harbinian, Chinese and Romanian "spy-saboteur contingent" signed by Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Anastas Mikoyan and Vlas Chubar
