Supreme Soviet of Russia
Joseph Stalin ordered population transfers in the Soviet Union, the deportation of people, often entire nationalities, from the 1930s through 1950s with destinations being underpopulated remote areas. The policy officially ended in the Khrushchev era, with many of the nationalities allowed to return in 1957. However, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev refused the right of return for Crimean Tatars, Russian Germans and Meskhetian Turks. In 1991, the Supreme Soviet of Russia declared the Stalinist mass deportations to be "policy of defamation and genocide".