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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com

#OtD 1 Sep 1937 the USSR began their first deportation of an entire ethnic group moving 175,000 Koreans, including partisan vets, and 8,000 Chinese to unpopulated areas of Uzbekistan and elsewhere. Their homes were mostly given to European immigrants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7716...

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Mike Friedman @mfriedmannola.bsky.social

It wasn't the first or last time the Soviets would deport entire populations of people. This caused great hardship and the death of millions. This was the same period that ended up with a "Jewish Republic" near Mongolia that still exists, at least in name. The 2021 population was 821 Jews.

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