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Data from the Soviet archives list 309,521 deaths in the Special Settlements from 1941 to 1948 and 73,454 in 1949–50. [55] According to Polian these people were not allowed to return to their home regions until after the death of Stalin, the exception being Soviet Germans who were not allowed to return to the Volga region of the Soviet Union.
Genocide. Mass killings under communist regimes occurred through a variety of means during the 20th century, including executions, famine, deaths through forced labour, deportation, starvation, and imprisonment. Some of these events have been classified as genocides or crimes against humanity. Other terms have been used to describe these events ...
Russell Bonner Bentley III (Russian: Рассел Бентли, romanized: Rassel Bentli; 1960 – 8 April 2024), also known as Texas (Russian: Техас, pronounced in Russian like "Tejas") and the Donbass Cowboy, was an American man who served in the Vostok Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion in 2014, 2015 and 2017 on the side of the Donetsk People's Republic.
S2CID 43510161. The best estimate that can currently be made of the number of repression deaths in 1937–38 is the range 950,000–1.2 million, i.e. about a million. This is the estimate which should be used by historians, teachers and journalists concerned with twentieth century Russian—and world—history.
Nazino tragedy. The Nazino tragedy (Russian: Назинская трагедия, romanized: Nazinskaya tragediya) was the mass murder and mass deportation of around 6,700 prisoners to Nazino Island, [1] located on the Ob River in West Siberian Krai, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Tomsk Oblast, Russia), in May 1933.
t. e. The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain -producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Kazakhstan, [6][7][8] Northern Caucasus, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia. [9][10] Major factors included the forced collectivization of agriculture ...
The Communist leadership was purged - 93 of the 139 Central Committee members were put to death. The armed forces were purged - 81 of the 103 generals and admirals were executed. The Communist Party was purged - about a third of its 3 million members were killed. ^ "The Great Purge". History. 4 October 2022.
People's Commissar of Justice Dmitry Kursky, head of the Soviet legal administration during the 1922 trial of the PSR leaders.. In 1921, in an effort to restore the shattered economy, Lenin and the Soviet government embarked on a program of economic liberalization known as the New Economic Policy (NEP). [13]