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Operation Osen

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702:, and militias as well as some 8,000 activists of the Communist Party. These men were organised into more than 3,000 operational units, consisting of one MGB operative, two men from destruction battalions, two MGB soldiers and activists. A single unit was responsible for the deportation of one to three families: waking up the family (the deportations were carried at night), ensuring that no one escaped, listing the deportees and checking their data, supervising packing of family's personal belongings, and bringing them to the designated railway station. Party activists stayed in the households to register left property, which was to come under the possession of the kolkhoz. The deportees were loaded onto 1211: 508:
jumped from 3.9% in January 1949 to 60.5% in January 1950. However, the pace of collectivization in Lithuania was still not as rapid as in Latvia or Estonia, where 93% and 80% of the farms were collectivized by the end of 1949. Soviet authorities, striving to complete the forced collectivisation in
563:. An aggregate list was prepared by MGB listed 4,215 families (14,950 people). A number of those had already joined kolkhozes and were labelled "kulak sympathizers". MGB further compiled primary and auxiliary lists of 4,007 and 998 families. The lists were approved by the 1216: 535: 681: 398: 735: 968: 91: 238: 253: 886: 128: 391: 248: 243: 1221: 541: 989: 384: 123: 1004: 994: 687: 1067: 336: 1353: 1348: 1009: 999: 961: 341: 326: 23: 1055: 1061: 226: 331: 216: 564: 179: 1031: 556: 454: 954: 514: 189: 81: 1037: 351: 31: 1043: 276: 1338: 96: 58: 559:(MGB) of the Lithuanian SSR was held on September 6. Lists of the deportees were to be prepared by local administration and committees of the 231: 1014: 101: 501: 474: 905: 211: 1358: 1226: 1150: 466: 206: 461:
in the autumn of 1951. During the operation, more than 5,000 families (over 20,000 people) were transported to remote regions of the
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Lithuania, initiated preparations for a mass deportation of peasants who refused to join newly established
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The operation was led by Piotr Kapralov, Minister of State Security of the Lithuanian SSR, and
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Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity
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The deportation in the autumn of 1951 was carried in several separate events:
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and their families from the Lithuanian territory". The decree was signed by
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including 5,278 children, 39 of which died during the transfer
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with no amenities and spent about a month on their journey to
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Lietuvos gyventojų genocido ir rezistencijos tyrimo centras
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issued a decree number 3309-1568cc "On the deportation of
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mainly relatives, supporters and messengers of partisans
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Lietuvių tautos sovietinis naikinimas 1940–1958 metais
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campaign specifically targeting peasants who resisted
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Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
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Administrator of Affairs of the Council of Ministers
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After two large deportations in May 1948 (code name
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(2005). 962: 392: 8: 453:) was a mass deportation carried out by the 759:Misiunas, Romuald; Taagepera, Rein (1993). 969: 955: 947: 581: 565:Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR 399: 385: 18: 810: 808: 515:Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union 887:"Lietuvos lenkų trėmimai: 1941–1952 m." 849: 847: 845: 815:Tumavičius, Andrius (10 October 2014). 806: 804: 802: 800: 798: 796: 794: 792: 790: 788: 722: 350: 310: 262: 72: 39: 30: 817:"Lietuvos gyventojų trėmimai „Osenj"" 7: 1354:Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic 1349:Forced migration in the Soviet Union 16:1951 mass deportation from Lithuania 254:Between Poland and Soviet Lithuania 1227:Museum of the Occupation of Latvia 467:Soviet deportations from Lithuania 277:German–Soviet population transfers 14: 249:Between Poland and Soviet Belarus 244:Between Poland and Soviet Ukraine 885:Stravinskienė, Vitalija (2012). 92:Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina 978:Occupation of the Baltic states 854:Šalna, Linas (7 October 2011). 688:Third Chief Directorate of MGB 457:(MGB) in the territory of the 1: 1339:October 1951 events in Europe 352:Massive labor force transfers 926:Anušauskas, Arvydas (1996). 569:Polish minority in Lithuania 561:Communist Party of Lithuania 513:. 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Index

a series
Forced population transfer
in the Soviet Union

Dekulakization
Evacuation
Forced settlements
Gulag
Azerbaijanis from Armenia
Balkars
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Chechens and Ingush
Chinese
Crimean Tatars
Estonians
NKVD operation
Germans
from Romania
NKVD operation
Greeks
NKVD operation
Harbinites
Ingrian Finns
NKVD operation
Kalmyks
Karachays
Koreans
Kumyks
Kurds from Transcaucasia
Latvians
NKVD operation
Lithuanians

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