Jerzy Rohoziński, Ph. D.

Historian, anthropologist of culture, author of numerous books on the Russian and the Soviet Empire. Expert on the deportations and the Gulag economy.

[Jerzy Rohoziński, Ph. D. @RohozinskiJ]

#OTD in 1951, the #Soviet NKVD deported 6,140 Jehovah’s Witnesses from the Ukrainian SSR to Siberia. Previously, nearly 400 people had been deported from the Byelorussian SSR, 1,675 from the Moldavian SSR and 250 from the Estonian SSR. #History

[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

On July 15th, 1937, the Moscow-Volga was formally opened. The construction used over 200,000 Gulag slave laborers, over 20,000 of whom died during construction. Many of the survivors were considered undesirable and executed, while the rest were sent to other gulags, such as Kolyma, Vorkuta, and Norilsk, where most died in later years.

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On July 10th, 1938, the USSR staged one of the largest show trials of the Great Purge in the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court in Moscow. Dozens of Red Army officers, intellectuals, and former Bolshevik party officials were convicted of fabricated charges, including Espionage, treason, and conspiracy, using confessions extracted under torture. Many of the accused were sentenced to death, and others were sentenced to long prison sentences.

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On July 6th, 1949, Operation South began, resulting in 40,000 Moldovans being rounded up by the Soviets and sent to Siberia and Central Asia, many dying in transit in the cramped conductions of the cattle cars they were crammed into or in harsh conditions in exile.

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On July 6th, 1988, exhumation of mass graves in Kurapaty, Belarus began, discovering over 30,000 bodies. Russian and Belarusian investigators concluded from eyewitnesses and confessions of perpetrators that they had been murdered by the NKVD between 1937 and 1941.

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On June 29th, 1941, in yet another prison massacre, the NKVD began killing prisoners in Stryi, Ukraine, mostly Ukrainians and Poles being held for "Anti-Soviet Activities", to prevent them from escaping when the area was overrun. Estimates suggest 100-200 were killed, although over 900 inmates were present, so the death toll could have been higher.

[Today In Socialism @2dayinsocialism]

On June 25th, 1941, in one of many massacres across Western Ukraine after the Nazis invaded, the NKVD began killing political prisoners in the Chortkiv detention facility. Approximately 800 political prisoners were shot and killed.

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On June 26th, 1940, about nine months after the Soviets and the Nazis invaded Poland, the Soviets presented an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede territory in Bessarabia and Bukovina. The totally anti-imperialist USSR eventually just invaded and seized the land.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

OTD in 1940 USSR invited Nazi ambassador over to pass our very warm congratulations to Hitler for the rapid Nazi conquest of France.

The sort of thing an ally would do...

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On June 16th, 1953, East German workers began protesting work quotas, declining standards of living, and Sovietization. Because communists are all about the workers, the next day the protestors were violently suppressed by the Soviets and East German police. Over 100 were killed.

[Пщыкъу @Pshiku1864]

13th of June 1861 is the day that Circassians unified under a political framework to represent the Circassians politically abroad.

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On June 14th, 1941, the Soviets began loading tens of thousands of Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians into cattle cars and shipping them to camps, primarily in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Many died in transit or the harsh conditions in the work camps, with mortality rates over 60%.

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On June 11th, 1937, eight high ranking Soviet military leaders were convicted in a show trial using false evidence and forced confessions. They were executed the next day. Several family members of the condemned were also killed in later days.

[Free Nations PostRussia Forum @freenationsrf]

Collapse of #USSR in 1991 (second stage of the dismantling of the #Russian Empire, which began in 1917) was the most positive geopolitical event of second part of 20th century💯
Now we MUST accelerate final collapse of imperialistic #Moscovia (in the current form of so-called "Russian Federation"🤮) through controlled and non-violent #decolonization & #deimperialization, achieving the best results for the entire civilized world in 21st century: assisting in the de-occupation and creation of free, open societies (in their newly independent states in #PostRussianSpaces) for all #CaptiveNations & colonial regions still enslaved by #Moscow, as well as, in general, a new collective security architecture for all neighbors🎯

Today's tragedies and problems arose because imperial #Muscovy-#Russia was not finally put an end to in 1991, - so mistakes must be corrected, not repeat💯

#MakeMoscoviaSmallAgain✌️
#PostRussia
#DecolonizationRF
#MoscoviaDelendaEst 🔥

[ENRS @enrs_eu]

#OnThisDay in 1988, tens of thousands of Estonians gathered in Tallinn singing patriotic songs through the night, the birth of the Singing Revolution. A non-violent movement of voice and cultural identity, it spread across the Baltic states and culminated in independence in 1991.

[Circassian World @CircassianWorld]

Natural Allies: Polish and Circassian Relations in the Nineteenth Century.
Why two peoples at opposite ends of the Russian empire made common cause, and why every venture failed. https://t.co/YyVRzJxvLj

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On June 1st, 1962, over 5,000 people gathered in Novocherkassk in the USSR to protest worsening economic conditions. The authorities brought in tanks and troops when the crowd refused to disperse. They fired on the protestors, killing two dozen and injuring dozens more.

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On May 29th, 1942, Stalin ordered a deportation of Pontic Greeks and other minorities from the Krasnodar Krai. Over 1,400 Greeks, over a third of them children, were deported to various places in Central Asia.

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On May 29th, 1944, the first of tens of thousands of Tartars, deported from Crimea on orders of NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria, began to arrive in Uzbek SSR where they were subjected to forced labor. The low estimate of deaths resulting from the harsh working conditions is about 26K.

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On May 29th, 1949, the Soviet Council of Ministers issued a decree that ordered the relocation of the remaining Greeks, Turks and Dashnaks from the Black Sea coast. This was the third wave of these deportations, which uprooted tens of thousands and sent them largely in the Georgian and Armenian SSR. An estimated 15,000 died as a result, either in transit or the harsh conditions of exile.

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On May 27th, 1951, China proclaimed the “peaceful liberation" of Tibet. Over 5,000 Tibetans were killed in the “peaceful liberation" (i.e. invasion and occupation).