Issue: 70th Anniversary of the First Wave of Mass, Forced Deportations from Bessarabia

On June 12–13, 1941, 29,839 members of families of 'counter-revolutionaries and nationalists' from the Moldavian SSR, and from the Chernivtsi and Izmail oblasts of the Ukrainian SSR were deported to Kazakhstan, the Komi ASSR, the Krasnoyarsk Krai, and the Omsk and Novosibirsk oblasts.  Read more..

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