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    Special settlements in the Soviet Union were the result of population transfers and were performed in a series of operations organized according to social...
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  • Special settlement may refer to: Special settlement (securities) Special settlements in the Soviet Union This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    The Soviet Union introduced forced collectivization (Russian: Коллективизация) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ascension of...
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  • The Polish minority in the Soviet Union are Polish diaspora who used to reside near or within the borders of the Soviet Union before its dissolution....
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    The Soviet Union incorporated an area of over 22,402,200 square kilometres (8,649,500 sq mi), covering approximately one-sixth of Earth's land surface...
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  • or prohibit the crime of apartheid. Special settlements in the Soviet Union were the result of population transfers and were performed in a series of...
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  • Special Report to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, by Nikita Khrushchev, 1956 Otto Pohl, Ethnic cleansing in the USSR...
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    Germans in the Soviet Union was considered by the Soviet Union to be part of German war reparations for the damage inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union...
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    Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government...
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    (see Forced settlements in the Soviet Union). This includes deportations to the Soviet Union of non-Soviet citizens from countries outside the USSR. It has...
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    bringing the total to approximately 115,000 evicted people. They were placed in special settlements where they were assigned to forced labor. The deportation...
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    for the death toll in the special settlements from 1941–49 Wheatcroft, Stephen G. (1999). "Victims of Stalinism and the Soviet Secret Police: The Comparability...
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    so-called "special settlements" (спецпоселения) (see Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union). The deportations began after the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia...
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  • The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half...
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    The history of the Soviet Union (USSR) (1922–91) began with the ideals of the Bolshevik Revolution and ended in dissolution amidst economic collapse and...
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  • 1948, antisemitism reached new heights in the Soviet Union, especially during the anti-cosmopolitan campaign, in which numerous Yiddish-writing poets,...
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    dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, its UN seat was transferred to the Russian Federation, the successor state of the USSR. The Soviet Union took an active...
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    The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union (Russian: Депортация корейцев в СССР; Korean: 고려인의 강제 이주) was the forced transfer of nearly 172,000 Soviet...
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    was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. It was the largest...
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    After the Munich Agreement, the Soviet Union pursued a rapprochement with Nazi Germany. On 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact...
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    mostly civilians. Forced re-settlements into gulag labour camps and exile settlements in remote areas of the Soviet Union occurred. According to Norman...
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    German–Soviet Union relations date to the aftermath of the First World War. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, dictated by Germany ended hostilities between...
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  • The history of the Soviet Union between 1927 and 1953, commonly referred to as the Stalin Era or Stalinist Era, covers the period in Soviet history from...
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    The passport system of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an organisational framework of the single national civil registration system based...
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    beginning of the protracted Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Afghan military fight against the rebelling Afghan mujahideen. While they were backed...
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    between the Soviet Union and the United States were fully established in 1933 as the succeeding bilateral ties to those between the Russian Empire and the United...
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    needed] In 1860 the Russian Tsar Alexander II granted permission for Norwegian settlements on the Kola. Around 1870, scores of families from Finnmark in northern...
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    in cattle wagons to special settlements for forced labor in Siberia. Kalmyk women married to non-Kalmyk men were exempted from the deportations. The government's...
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    the center of Jewish settlement south of Birobidzhan from 1929 to 1939, and Smidovich. The Organization for Jewish Colonisation in the Soviet Union,...
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    "unfriendly countries". The two countries share a history of intense espionage activity against each other, with the Soviet Union succeeding in penetration of...
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