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635:, the entry of Greece into the NATO alliance further drove Stalin's distrust of the Soviet Greek community, fearing they had come under the influence of the West. Soviet authorities viewed Greeks as a "foreign element" to the region that was "hostile" and "unreliable" to Soviet rule. Their removal, it was thought, would solidify Soviet hegemony in the 790:
alone in the various waves of resettlements, not to mention the loss of life from executions, disease, starvation, and exhaustion among the other harsh conditions in the camps. An exact figure of the number of Greeks killed is virtually impossible, although it's estimated that 19% of all those arrested in the
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On many occasions, the central authorities sent telegrams to police forces with orders to arrest a certain number of Greeks, without giving any individual names, and the police officers would arrest at random any persons of Greek origin until they reached the requested total number of arrests until
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Other motivators include gaining control over resources and land populated by the Greeks, who primarily reside around the Black Sea. The Soviet Union saw the deportation of the Greeks and other minorities in this area as a way to safeguard important agricultural and mineral resources along with oil
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The effects of Soviet forced deportation were extensive on the Greek community. The trauma alone of being uprooted from one's home, way of life, and culture corroded centuries of tradition and language, the loss of which is still seen to this day. Many lost their homes, businesses, and possessions
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When these Greek societies started emerging, I told the lads that there was a society that was reviving us, the Pontic Greeks. Do you know what their answer was? They said, that if such societies were organised then we would have to expect a repetition of 1937. So many Greeks were deported
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regions. Population transfer was Soviet policy at the time when it came to weakening nationalistic or ethnic sentiments in potentially “problematic” populations. Resettlement was often carried out regardless of whether or not different ethnic groups were resistant to Soviet rule. The
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by Soviet legislation. In the early 1990s, a movement arose advocating the creation of a new Greek autonomy in the Krasnodar region, but it failed to achieve support. One Soviet Greek man, born in 1959, described this outcome with the following words:
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About one thousand Greeks from Greece and more from the Soviet Union, presumably motivated by their ethnic persecution from Soviet authorities, joined the Waffen-SS, mostly in Ukrainian divisions. A special case was that of the Ukrainian-Greek
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Anastasis Gkikas the Greek Operation of the NKVD came as a response to counter-revolutionary activities of a portion of the ethnic Greek population. Gkikas claims that anti-Soviet resistance organizations had coordinated their actions with
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popping up all across Soviet territory. This contrasted directly with the long history the Greeks had of independent farming practices, and as a result, the Greek community was viewed as resistant and a hindrance to state control.
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In 1938, 20,000 Soviet Greeks arrived in Greece. Between 1965 and 1975, another 15,000 Greeks emigrated from the Soviet Union and went to Greece. A monument to all Greek victims of the
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The prosecution of Greeks in USSR was gradual: at first, the authorities shut down the Greek schools, cultural centers, theatres and publishing houses. Then, the
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A wave of Greek emigrants from the Soviet Union in 1937–1939 is often considered a consequence of Stalinist persecution of the Soviet Greek national movement.
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In reality, there was virtually no widespread counter-revolutionary activity among the Soviet Greeks, though there were very few exceptions, such as
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intelligence" in the Soviet Union, but was later expanded to also include Latvians, Germans, Estonians, Finns, Greeks, Iranians and Chinese.
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as early as 1938 and became an official of the Wehrmacht, with extensive action in intelligence and agitation work on the Eastern front.
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also faced similar accusations of disloyalty from Soviet authorities. Soviet doctrine at the time pushed for the formation of an
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subjects. Beyond their association with the Ottoman Empire, the Greeks held particularly close ties with Greece and with the
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society in addition to an ethnically homogenous one. As a result, extensive efforts were made to fill the newly established
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15,000 were executed and 20,000 were deported to Gulags, while Vlasis Agtzidis puts the number of deaths to 50,000.
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uprising or saboteur activity were only heightened by the resistance shown by Greek partisans in response to the
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societies in Greece and sought to create an autonomous Greek state in the Black Sea region. They engaged in
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registered 213,765 Greeks in the country and the 1939 census recorded 286,444. On 9 August 1937,
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The 'Right to Return' and the Meaning of 'Home': A Post-Soviet Greek Diaspora Becoming European?
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the process was repeated at a later date. Estimates of the number of victims vary: according to
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Strategically, the Greeks were viewed as a security threat by the Soviets. Worries over a
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indiscriminately arrested all Greek men aged 16 years old or older. Greeks who were
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in 2011. Unlike many other "punished" ethnic groups, the Soviet Greeks were not
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Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR
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had a history of maintaining close ties with outside powers, such as the
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Nations in exile: "The punished peoples" in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1941-1961
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Culture, Ethnicity and Migration After Communism: The Pontic Greeks
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Bulletin of Mariupol State University. Series: History. Politology
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The Changing Face of Europe: Population Flows in the 20th Century
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An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires
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order 00485 was adopted to target "subversive activities of
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Organised mass persecution of the Greeks of the Soviet Union
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as that is how it was printed in various publications. In
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Greek Participation in the Building of Socialism in USSR
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of Greek origin, who later became second in command in
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Athens: Syghxroni Epoxi. 1430:Day of Remembrance for the Greeks of Pontus 557:) was an organised mass persecution of the 758:Nazi German occupation of the Soviet Union 493: 479: 112: 20: 1821:Persecution of Greeks in the Soviet Union 1073: 612:authorities wary of the loyalty of their 1831:Genocide of indigenous peoples in Europe 1274: 1179:"The Origins of Soviet Ethnic Cleansing" 983: 1595:Olson JS, Pappas LB, Pappas NC (1994). 1226: 907: 885:is also known with the transliteration 444: 404: 356: 166: 133: 124: 1322: 1298: 1286: 1098:(3). Mariupol State University: 30–38. 1061: 934: 1624:] (in Greek). 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Oxford University Press. 1747:. Budapest; New York City: 1239:Kubiiovych & Struk 1984 1086:Bogatikova O, Romantsov V. 588:Motivations for deportation 545: 525: 24:Greek Operation of the NKVD 1847: 1826:Ethnic cleansing in Europe 1667:. Transaction Publishers. 1455:Journal of Refugee Studies 559:Greeks of the Soviet Union 126:Forced population transfer 1686:. Bloomsbury Publishing. 852:Greek Autonomous District 794:were executed. Following 554: 534: 514: 176:Azerbaijanis from Armenia 28: 1811:Greek diaspora in Russia 830:officially rehabilitated 816:officially rehabilitated 284:Kurds from Transcaucasia 1192:(4): 71, 92, 126, 855. 631:of their country. Post 608:. Such close ties made 456:Twenty-five-thousanders 1705:. LIT Verlag Münster. 955:"Greeks of the steppe" 887:Gretseskayia Operatsia 883:Grecheskaya Operatsiya 826: 756:detachment during the 526:Grecheskaya Operatsiya 333:Polish and Soviet Jews 1536:. Council of Europe. 953:(November 12, 2012). 711:were targeted first. 618:Greek Orthodox Church 466:Virgin Lands campaign 1614:Photiades K (1999). 1401:. 13 September 2015. 847:Constantine Kromiadi 775:Sevastianos Foulidis 740:Constantine Kromiadi 561:that was ordered by 1664:Death by Government 1568:Marshall A (2010). 1468:10.1093/jrs/4.4.372 1448:Agtzidis V (1991). 1289:, pp. 247–250. 986:, pp. 372–382. 895:Ελληνική Επιχείρηση 828:Soviet Greeks were 722:According to Greek 555:Ελληνική επιχείρηση 191:Chechens and Ingush 128:in the Soviet Union 1701:Voutira E (2011). 1661:Rummel RJ (1997). 1216:– via JSTOR. 1143:Westren M (2012). 857:Konstantin Chelpan 768:Axis collaboration 683:1926 Soviet census 596:living within the 581:" against Greeks. 546:Hretska Operatsiia 515:Греческая Операция 461:NKVD labor columns 416:POW Administration 153:Forced settlements 1788:978-0-19-975043-6 1758:978-963-9241-68-8 1712:978-3-643-90107-1 1693:978-1-4728-0688-8 1682:Thomas N (2015). 1674:978-1-56000-927-6 1653:978-1-317-15580-5 1631:978-960-7290-66-3 1606:978-0-313-27497-8 1579:978-1-136-93825-2 1543:978-92-871-4790-5 1524:978-960-451-056-6 1509:Gkikas A (2007). 1493:978-1-56072-371-4 1482:. 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Index

National operations of the NKVD
Soviet Union
Russia
Ukraine
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Greeks
NKVD
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

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