Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
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title:
Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
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The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union was the forced transfer of nearly 172,000 Soviet Koreans (Koryo-saram) from the Russian Far East to unpopulated areas of the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR in 1937 by the NKVD on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union Vyacheslav Molotov. 124 trains were used to resettle them 6,400 km to Central Asia. The reason was to stem "the infiltration of Japanese espionage into the Far Eas
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1937 forced transfer to Central Asia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Koreans_in_the_Soviet_Union
date created:
2005-07-09T04:47:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T03:10:57Z
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