Soviet deportations from Latvia

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Soviet deportations from Latvia were a series of mass

again in 1944/1945.[1] Similar deportations were organized by the Soviet regime in the fellow occupied Baltic states of Estonia and Lithuania
at the same time.

Alongside smaller forced population removals, the main waves of deportation were:

  • The June deportation of 14 June 1941 of around 14,000–15,500 people and their families, including young children under the age of 10.[2][3] This wave of deportations was mostly directed at the local Latvian and minority intelligentsia and political-social-economic elite, labeled by the Soviet security services as "suspect and socially alien elements".[4][5] Out of all the deportees, approximately 5,000 or around 34%-40% of the total number died in exile, on the journey or in executions;[6]
  • The second deportation under
    armed anti-Soviet resistance.[8][9] Of the total number of deportees, more than 5000 people died in exile.[6]

The deportations of 1944 are also sometimes singled out among these.[10][11]

People from Latvia were mostly resettled to Amur, Tomsk, and Omsk regions. Several smaller scale deportations took place during the Soviet occupation, especially of ethnic Germans, stateless persons from Riga, and Jehovah's Witnesses. After destalinization, internment in camps was a punishment reserved for people engaged in "anti-Soviet" behaviour.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Kaprāns, Mārtiņš. "The Tradition of Deportation Commemoration". Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. Retrieved 2020-06-06.[permanent dead link]
  2. ISBN 978-0-8229-7314-0
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  3. ISBN 978-1-5013-1858-0
    , retrieved 2020-12-18
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    ISBN 978-90-420-2423-6
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  5. ISBN 978-1-57607-800-6
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  6. ^ a b c "Latvia - Repressions". Latvia | Communist Crimes. Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  7. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia. 2004-08-16. Archived from the original
    on 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
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  9. ISBN 978-0-8229-7314-0
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  10. ISBN 978-1-134-05714-6
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  11. ^ The Baltic Review #1-3. Committees for a Free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. 1953. p. 37.


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