Soviet deportation of Greeks

Soviet deportation of Greeks
Part of Genocides by the Soviet Union
DateBetween 1930s and 1949[1]
TargetGreeks[1]
Attack type
Ethnic cleansing[1]
Deaths18.8%–21.4% of Greeks in the Soviet Union[1]
Victims70,000‒80,000 Greeks[1]
PerpetratorsSoviet Union[1]
MotiveEthnic cleansing[1]

Just as many other ethnic minorities within the Soviet Union,[2][3] Greeks were also persecuted by the totalitarian regime of Joseph Stalin (1878–1953).[1]

Events

Between the 1930s and 1949, Greek schools, cultural centres and publishing houses were banned from operating,[1] while all Greek men older than 16 years old were deported to forced settlements that took the form of cattle trains.[1] One of the Greek victims said:[4]

The whole village, almost 200 families, was deported, here, to the Pakhtaral region in 1949 [...] eight or ten families in each freight car, with the animals [...] most of the people were dying of diarrhea.

Casualties

70,000‒80,000 Greeks were victims of such deportation and 15,000 did not survive,[1] a death rate between 18.8% and 21.4%.[1] The surviving Greeks were not allowed to return to their original homes until the MVD Order N 0402 was adopted on September 25, 1956.[5] Some survivors moved to Greece.[5]

Aftermath

The Soviet deportation of Greeks has been classified as a genocide by some historians.[1]

Footnotes

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12
    • Rummel, R. J. (1997). Death by Government. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56000-927-6.
    • Photiades, Kostas (1999). Ο ελληνισμός της Ρωσίας και της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης [The Hellenism of Russia and the Soviet Union] (in Greek). Ekdoseis Irodotos. ISBN 978-960-7290-66-3.
    • Gkikas, Anastasis (2007). Οι Έλληνες στη διαδικασία οικοδόμησης του σοσιαλισμού στην ΕΣΣΔ [Greek Participation in the Building of Socialism in USSR] (in Greek). Athens: Syghxroni Epoxi. ISBN 978-960-451-056-6.
    • Το πογκρόμ κατά των Ελλήνων της ΕΣΣΔ, ΕΛΛΑΔΑ, 09.12.2007
    • Pratsinakis, Manolis (2013). The Greek diaspora in the Soviet Union (PDF) (PhD). University of Amsterdam. pp. 45–68.
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  4. ↑ Voutira, Eftihia (2011). The 'Right to Return' and the Meaning of 'Home': A Post-Soviet Greek Diaspora Becoming European?. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783643901071.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bugay, Nikolay (1996). The Deportation of Peoples in the Soviet Union. New York City: Nova Publishers. ISBN 9781560723714. OCLC 36402865.


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