NKVD deports tens of thousands of Balts to Siberia
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- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 96-100 · open book
Other examples include the NKVD’s forced deportation of some 35,000 to 50,000 “suspect” Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians to Siberian exile in 1940 and 1941, which has remained a rigidly enforced secret inside the USSR ever since.