{"id":206582,"date":"2022-09-07T14:20:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=206582"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:20:37","slug":"deportation-of-ukrainians-how-modern-russia-repeats-the-crimes-of-the-soviet-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/deportation-of-ukrainians-how-modern-russia-repeats-the-crimes-of-the-soviet-union","title":{"rendered":"Deportation of Ukrainians: How Modern Russia Repeats the Crimes of the Soviet Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a result of Russia’s bloody war against Ukraine, people suffer the most. Since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the occupiers have committed and still commit multiple war crimes, one of which is forced deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a matter of fact, deportation is not only a phenomenon of modern Russian \u201cwar style\u201d but also a long tradition. There are plenty of declassified documents from Soviet security agencies\u2019 archives, which confirm that the forced deportations of separate persons and nations have always been an essential part of Moscow\u2019s repressive and punitive system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deportations of Ukrainians as a political tradition of the Soviet Union<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When one dives deeper into history, one will find out that some \u201csteps\u201d were taken even before the Soviet Union’s formation. One of them was the decree \u201con the administrative expelling\u201d, which was passed by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (10\/08\/1922) and meant the right of expelling all the suspected persons to remote regions of Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, the official \u201cProvision on the Rights of the Unified State Political Administration of the Soviet Union in Terms of Administrative Evictions, Exile, and Imprisonment in Concentration Camps\u201d was passed (28\/03\/1924) by the Soviet government, which made<\/a> forced deportation a legal, officially recognized method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, in the XXI century, Russia continues using all the same \u201crules of war\u201d. There are already about 1 200 000 Ukrainians, deported from the temporarily occupied territories, and many of them are expelled to Siberia, the Far East, and the North Caucasus, as it was decades ago, during the Stalin era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the pages of history: Siberia, Kolyma, Vorkuta<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first mass deportations of Ukrainians during Soviet times are dated to 1929-1930 years when they were one of the elements of \u201cdekulakization\u201d (chain of repressions against wealthy farmers, including arrests, deportations, or executions of wealthy farmers or kulaks aimed to liquidate them as a social class). According to the declassified documents from Soviet security agencies\u2019 archives, about 146 229 persons were expelled<\/a> from the Ukrainian territory (URSR) in general, about 93 461 persons were sent to the northern regions of the USSR, and about 52 425 persons \u2013 to Siberia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second \u201cwave\u201d of deportations came with WWII when during September 1939-June 1941 about 1 250 000 people from western parts of Ukraine and Belarus (where many Ukrainians lived) were deported<\/a> to remote regions of the USSR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariupol today<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mariupol is a living testimony of Russian war crimes. Russian occupiers have deported over 1000 Ukrainian children from the city. According to the Mariupol city council, over 1000 Ukrainian children have been already taken<\/a> to Russia and are living now in families in far regions of Russia, such as Irkutsk, Tumen, Kemerovo, and Altai Krai. Their parents are being constantly threatened with the loss of parental rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occupiers are aimed to accelerate the process of assimilation and genocide of Ukrainian people as well as to raise a generation loyal to the Kremlin propaganda and incite it with hatred towards Ukraine and Ukrainians. Such actions are a direct violation of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (09\/12\/1948), the Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (12\/08\/1949), and the Convention on Rights of the Child (20\/11\/1989).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Donbas Story: Russian Colonization<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Special attention must be paid to \u201cthe birth\u201d of Donbas in its modern form. In this case, a significant role was played by the \u201cnational politics\u201d of the Soviet government and, in particular, by the deportation of people. It is especially important to understand it in the context of the year 2014 and the following events. The population of Donetsk and Luhansk regions was majorly formed<\/a> by two \u201cwaves\u201d of resettlement: from Russian territory (about 3627 families) and the Chernihiv region (over 4000 families). To be more precise, there were three sides of the movement: the West (colonization of Ukraine), the East (colonization of far regions of Russia), and the North (from the earlier settled territories of Slobozhanschchyna).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summarizing the results of Russian social policy, it is clear that it is still built on the tradition of both the Russian empire and the Soviet Union where the principle \u201cdivide et impera\u201d was applied not only to Ukrainian territories but also to people. The ultimate goal of the modern empire is the same old colonialism and erasing the Ukrainian identity to replace it with a \u201cRussian world\u201d quasi-ideology and substitute history with another colonial myth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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