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Deportation of Soviet Koreans (1937)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “The Korean deportation”
Sep–Oct 1937 — The NKVD deported the entire Korean population of the Soviet Far East, about 172,000 people, to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, on the pretext that Koreans might spy for Japan. It was the first deportation of a whole nationality.
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- Stalin’s ethnic deportations (chapter 7 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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