Refugee crises · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Repatriation of Cossacks at Lienz (1945)
On the Refugee crises map as “Lienz”
1 Jun 1945 — British troops force Cossacks and their families, many of whom had fought for the Germans, onto lorries for handover to the Soviets at Judenburg under the Yalta accords; some die resisting and others take their own lives. Many of those returned were shot or sent to the Gulag. Remember them.
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- Site of memory
- Chapter
- Displaced persons camps after WW2 (chapter 4 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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