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"When we left Crimea, everyone sang and cried." Deportations of Crimean Tatars began 80 years ago

May 1944. The Second World War is raging in the world and one of the biggest Soviet crimes - the deportation of the Crimean Tatars - is about to ta...

Mass deportations of Ukrainians: from history to Russia's modern crimes

24 February 2024 marks two years since the beginning of the full-scale war against Ukraine. Russia is committing many crimes against the Ukrainian ...

"They were just throwing the corpses into the snowdrifts". The brutal deportation of Chechens and Ingush began 80 years ago

On February 23, 1944, the deportation of Chechens and other Caucasian nations to Central Asia began. Hundreds of thousands of people became victims...

The scale of Soviet political terror

The long-standing discussion regarding the scale of terror often relies on intuitive ideas about political terror in the Soviet period rather than ...

Soviet repression and deportations in the Baltic states

History of Soviet repressions and victims of deportations in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - a material for the occasion of June 14 deportation ann...