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Deportation of the Koreans in (...) 01/15/25(Wed)22:10:05 No.17433913

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Deportation of the Koreans in the Soviet Union Anonymous 01/15/25(Wed)22:10:05 No.17433913

>The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union (Russian: Дeпopтaция кopeйцeв в CCCP; Korean: 고려인의 강제 이주) was the forced transfer of nearly 172,000 Koryo-sarams (Koryoin, also known as Soviet Koreans) 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 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to Central Asia. The reason was to stem "the infiltration of Japanese espionage into the Far Eastern Krai", as Koreans were at the time subjects of the Empire of Japan, which was the Soviet Union's rival. However, some historians regard it as part of Stalin's policy of "frontier cleansing". Estimates based on population statistics suggest that between 16,500 and 50,000 deported Koreans died from starvation, exposure, and difficulties adapting to their new environment in exile.

>This marked the precedent of the first Soviet ethnic deportation of an entire nationality,[7] which was later repeated during the population transfer in the Soviet Union during and after World War II when millions of people belonging to other ethnic groups were resettled. Modern historians and scholars view this deportation as an example of a racist policy in the USSR[8][9][10] and ethnic cleansing, common of Stalinism, as well as a crime against humanity.