TSOMAYA H. F. Overview deportations of peoples in the Soviet Union during the Second World War.

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    This article provides a brief overview of several deportations of peoples living in the Soviet Union, held during the Second World War. As an example, taken the deportation of the Volga Germans, Kalmyks, Chechens and Ingush and Crimean Tatars.

     Part of the Volga Germans describes the history of their appearance in Russia, as they were at the invitation of Catherine in the Volga region. Affect their lives in the newly formed Soviet Russia, mentioned the establishment of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the German Volga region. Not mentioned in the article the life of the Germans in the Soviet Union, as their fate was no different from the lives of millions of other citizens of the USSR. Described in the same decision-making process on the Elimination of ASSR of the Volga Germans, the process of relocation and settlement of deported, their number and the charges that were brought against them.

     As part of the deportation of the Kalmyks, described the cause of their sentences, indicated by the fact that the territory of Kalmykia was almost completely okkupirovanna Wehrmacht. Indicates the number of evicted Kalmyks and their locations after deportation. Separately marked fact the employment of Kalmyks in areas deatelnosti who were not accustomed to them.

      In the part describing the deportation of the Chechens and Ingush described reason which they were deported. The territory of the Chechen-Ingush Republic pratkicheski was not occupied, but the "exit" was found, Chechens and Ingush were charged with "active and almost universal participation in a terrorist movement against the Soviets and the Red Army." Indicates the number of deportees and the terrain where the deportees were resettled. Separately disclosed the fact of execution of citizens of the Chechen-Ingush Republic, who did not want to leave their homes.

      The article describes the same operation on the deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Described the deportation process, marked by the fact that the occupation authorities destroyed about 10% of the population of the peninsula, but the Soviet authorities found nothing to blame the indigenous population of Crimea, to be precise, the "treacherous actions against the Soviet people undesirability of further stay of the Crimean Tatars on the outskirts of the Soviet border Union. " Marked separately by the fact that after the deportation of the Crimean Tatars were renaming all, Greek and German settlements, changed names of rivers, mountains, and the like.

Keywords: Deportation, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, ASSR of the Volga Germans, the Kalmyk ASSR, Chechens, Ingush, Kalmyks, the Crimean Tatars, the Crimea, the Wehrmacht, the Soviet authorities, decree, order.