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Deportation of the Volga Germans (1941)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “The Volga Germans”
28 Aug 1941 — A decree accused the Volga Germans of hiding “thousands and tens of thousands of saboteurs and spies” and abolished their republic. About 440,000 people were deported east from its capital Engels and the Volga, part of some 900,000 Soviet Germans moved by 1942.
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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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