He also initiated "national operations", the ethnic cleansing of non-Soviet ethnic groups—among them Poles, Germans, Latvians, Finns, Greeks, Koreans, and Chinese—through internal or external exile.
Ia juga melancarkan "operasi-operasi nasional", yaitu pembersihan terhadap kelompok etnis non-Soviet—beberapa diantaranya adalah orang Polandia, Jerman, Latvia, Finlandia, Yunani, Korea, dan Tionghoa—melalui pengasingan internal atau eksternal.