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  2. Soviet atrocities committed against prisoners of war during ...

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    One of the Soviet Union's earliest and largest crimes against prisoners of war occurred in the aftermath of the invasion. After the fighting ended, the Soviet Union ended up with several hundred thousands of Polish prisoners of war. Some escaped, were transferred to German custody, or released, but 125,000 were imprisoned in camps run by the ...

  3. Gulag - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. List of conflicts in territory of the former Soviet Union

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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 ...

  5. List of Gulag camps - Wikipedia

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    Unlike Gulag camps, located primarily in remote areas (mostly in Siberia), most of the POW camps after the war were located in the European part of the Soviet Union (with notable exceptions of the Japanese POW in the Soviet Union), where the prisoners worked on restoration of the country's infrastructure destroyed during the war: roads ...

  6. German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war

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    German advances through 5 December 1941, with large groups of encircled Red Army soldiers in red. Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. [4] [5] The Nazi leadership believed that war with its ideological enemy was inevitable [6] due to the Nazi dogma that conquering territory to the east—called living space ()—was essential to Germany's long-term survival, [7 ...

  7. Soviet repressions against former prisoners of war - Wikipedia

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    After the war, former POWs underwent screening in NKVD filtration camps, where most were cleared, but many faced forced labor or imprisonment. Official Soviet records indicate that the majority were reintegrated into society, while a significant minority—particularly those accused of collaboration—were sentenced to forced labor camps or ...

  8. Bitch Wars - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Perm-36 - Wikipedia

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    Perm-36 (also known as ITK-6) was a Soviet forced labor colony located near the village of Kuchino, [1] 100 km (60 miles) northeast of the city of Perm in Russia. It was part of the large prison camp system established by the former Soviet Union during the Stalin era, known as the Gulag.