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This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states. Others involved separatist ...
Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville," was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. Based south of the city on the prairie, it was also used as a training and detention camp for Union soldiers.
Soviet Union: Damkom: Victory The uprising is suppressed; Consolidation of Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR; 1925–1926 Urtatagai conflict Soviet Union: Emirate of Afghanistan: Defeat Peace Treaty Urtatagui is seized back to Afghanistan; Afghanistan agreement to restrain Basmachi border raids; 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict Soviet Union China: Victory
The battles took place between groups of prisoners who agreed to collaborate with administration of labor camps and prisons ("Bitches") and "honest" criminals who followed a "thief's code" that prohibited any collaboration with the prison authorities. In this conflict rival sides were often identified by the system of tattoos common in Soviet ...
The policies of perestroika and glasnost, initiated by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, marked the beginning of low-level conflict between local nationalists and the Soviet government; while a union-wide phenomenon, this was particularly present in the Caucasus. From September 1985 to August 1989 the number of those killed in such ...
British and United States civilian authorities ordered their military forces in Europe to deport to the Soviet Union up to two million former residents of the Soviet Union, including persons who had left the Russian Empire and established different citizenship years before. The forced repatriation operations took place from 1945 to 1947. [81]
On July 11, 1929, by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union "On the Use of Labour of Criminal Prisoners", two parallel structures of places of deprivation of liberty were created: under the jurisdiction of the United State Political Administration of the Soviet Union and under the jurisdiction of the republican ...
Soviet Prisoners of War in World War II, which reports that of 1.5 million returnees by March 1946, 43 percent continued their military service, 22 percent were drafted into labor battalions for two years, 18 percent were sent home, 15 percent were sent to a forced labor camp, and 2 percent worked for repatriation commissions.