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  Violation of the right of ethnic self-identification and involuntary displacement of people on ethnic grounds particularly during Stalin's leadership of the USSR

ITEMS OF THE DRAFT RESOLUTION

Killing of people without any legal procedure or the sentence being pronounced after their assassination

Unfair trials

Inhuman treatment and torture especially in concentration camps, prisons and detention centres and especially against political prisoners and detainees

Persecution based on religious grounds

Persecution and killings of priests and religious servants

Violation of the right of ethnic self-identification and involuntary displacement of people on ethnic grounds particularly during Stalin's leadership of the USSR

Forbidding freedom of association and freedom of assembly

Restriction of free movement in the state and abroad

Serious violations of pluralism and impossibility for real political activity

Severe violations of freedom of conscience, thought and expression

Restriction of the right to information, lack of privacy and complete lack of press freedom

Expropriation of private property including land

Support for revolutionary communistic movements which fought outside of the democratic arena

Total control of the security services over the life of the citizens

 


Soviet mass deportations of the 1940s

Poles/Jews (1940–41)
380 000
Volga Germans (Sept. 1941)
366 000
Chechens (Feb. 1944)
362 000
Meskhetians (Nov. 1944)
200 000
Crimean Tatars (May 1944)
183 000
Koreans (1937)
172 000
Ingush (Feb. 1944)
134 000
Kalmyks (Dec. 1943)
92 000
Karachai (Nov. 1943)
68 000
Poles (1936)
60 000
Finns (St Petersburg region, 1942)
45 000
Balkars (April 1944)
37 000
Moldovans (1949)
36 000
Black Sea Greeks (1949)
36 000
Other Soviet Germans (1941–52)
843 000
Other Crimean groups (1944)
45 000
Other Black Sea groups (1949)
22 000
Other N. Caucasus groups (1943–44)
8 000
Total
3 089 000

Note: All statistics on the original deportations, with the exception of the Meskhetians, are provided by A. Blum of the Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques in Paris. Historical details were supplied by Blum or taken from Les peuples deportes d’Union Sovietique by J.–J. Marie. Population transfers (amounting to several million people) linked to collectivization and the Gulag labour camps rather than the ‘special settlers regime’, are not included. Further large–scale deportations took place from the Baltic states, Moldova and the Ukraine from 1944 until 1953.

Source: UNHCR (Public Information Section), Commonwealth of Independent States conference on refugees and migrants, 30–31 May 1996.
Displacement in the former Soviet region
The State of the World’s Refugees

 

The deportation of Crimean Tartars and other national groups, 1944
In Russian

From: The Stalinist Penal System: A Statistical History of Soviet Repression and Terror, 1930-1953 by J. Otto Pohl

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