Deportations
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2013

The previous chapter sketched some of the broad experiences of the non-Russian nationalities during and after the Second World War. There was considerable variation across the Soviet Union, with the western and North Caucasus nationalities who suffered German occupation experiencing the war differently from other nationalities, while the Jews faced persecution of different sorts by the Nazis during the war and by the Soviets after it. But two further groups of nationalities deserve especial atte