Genocides by the Soviet Union
atrocities of the Soviet Union considered genocides by historians From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Genocides by the Soviet Union can refer to the following atrocities committed by the Soviet Union (1922–1991):
- Holodomor,[1][2] a man-made famine (1932–33) under Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) that killed millions of Ukrainians[1][2]
- Soviet persecution of Poles during World War II[3]
- Katyn massacre,[4] mass executions of captured Polish soldiers, police and members of the intelligentsia[4]
- Soviet persecution of Baltic states' population[5][6]
- Soviet deportations of Chechens and Ingush,[7] sometimes called the Chechen genocide and Ingush genocide[7]
- Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina[8]
- Soviet deportation of Greeks[9]
- Soviet deportation of Koreans[10]
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