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Deportation of the Soviet Greeks
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'''The deportation of the Soviet Greek''' was a [[forced transfer]] of [[Greeks in Russia and the Soviet Union|Greeks of the Soviet Union]] that was ordered by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] leader [[Joseph Stalin]]. It was carried out in 1942, 1944 and 1949 and affected mostly [[Pontic Greeks]] along the [[Black Sea]] coast.
==History==
The [[Soviet Census (1926)|1926 Soviet census]] registered 213,765 Greeks in the country and 286,000 in the 1939 census. On 9 August 1937, [[NKVD]] order 00485 was adopted to target "subversive activities of [[Poles in the Soviet Union|Polish]] intelligence" in the Soviet Union, but was later expanded to also include Latvians, Germans, Estonians, Finns, Greeks, Iranians and Chinese. This was the beginning of the [[Great Purge|Great Terror]].
Some soures claim that there was no widespread counter-revolutionary activity among the Soviet Greeks, though there were exceptions in [[Constantine Kromiadi]], an [[anti-communist]] of Greek origin, who became second in command in [[Andrey Vlasov]] ''[[Abwehr]]'' detachment during the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Nazi German occupation of the Soviet Union]] in [[World War II]].
Soviet Greeks were deported in three waves as part of the [[population transfer in the Soviet Union]].
*on 29 May 1942, Stalin ordered a deportation of [[Pontic Greeks]] and other minorities from the [[Krasnodar Krai]].
*shortly after the [[deportation of the Crimean Tatars]], on 2 June 1944 the State Committee for Defense issued the decree N 5984 SS to extend the deportation to other people from [[Crimea]]. 15,040 Soviet Greeks were consequently deported from the peninsula (this included 3,350 Greek foreigners with expired passports). Many were sent to the [[Uzbek SSR]]. Simultaneously, additional 8,300 Greeks were deported from the [[Krasnodar Krai]] and [[Rostov Region]]: this operation was perpetrated by [[Lavrentiy Beria]]'s deputy, [[Ivan Serov]], who arrived from [[Kerch]], and G. Karandadze. A further 16,375 Greeks were relocated from [[Georgian SSR]], [[Armenian SSR]] and [[Azerbaijan SSR]] and sent to [[Kazakh SSR]] and [[Russian SFSR]].
*on 29 May 1949, the [[Soviet Council of Ministers]] issued the decree N 2214-856 that ordered the relocation of the remaining [[Black Sea Greeks|Greeks]], Turks and [[dashnaks]] from the [[Black Sea]] coast, specifically the Georgian and Armenian SSR. Many were sent to the Kazakh SSR and registered as [[Special settlement (Soviet)|special settlers]]. The total number of all these three groups deported by June 1949 was 57,680. Greeks made up 27,000 or 36,000 individuals among this deported groups. The property they left behind was placed under the control of the administrative bodies.
One of the deported Greeks who was born near [[Sukhumi]] and sent to the Pahtaral region of Uzbekistan in 1949, recalled the events:
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Russian historian [[Alexander Nekrich]] assumes that the Greeks were deported in 1949 because of the alliance of [[Greece]] with the [[UK]]. Others consider it as a [[collective punishment]] because the Greek communists lost in the [[Greek Civil War]] during 1946-1949.
In 1938, 20,000 Soviet Greeks arrived to Greece. Between 1965 and 1975, another 15,000 Greeks emigrated from the Soviet Union and went to Greece. Unlike many other 'punished' ethnic groups, the Soviet Greeks were never [[On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples|officially rehabilitated]] either by the Soviet or the post-Soviet legislation.
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[[Category:Crimes against humanity]]
[[Category:Greek diaspora in Russia]]
[[Category:Persecution of Greeks in the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Ethnic cleansing in Europe]]
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