There is no doubt that the ethnic German population of the USSR suffered a great deal of persecution and suffering from 1918 until 1955 in various waves. These include the events of the 1918-1921 Civil War, the 1921-1922 famine, the mass dekulakization of 1930-1931, the 1932-1933 Holodomor, the 1937-1938 Great Terror, and finally the mass internal deportations, special settlement restrictions, and mobilization into the labor army from 1941 to 1955. It is these last three events starting with the order to deport the Volga Germans to Siberia and Kazakhstan on 26 August 1941 that are commemorated on the 28th of August. The difference of two days is due to the fact that the SNK (Council of People’s Commissars) and Central Committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) issued a secret order to deport the Volga Germans on 26 August 1941 while the public decree by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was promulgated on 28 August 1941. This second decree was published in Russian in
Let Us Just Call it "Anti-German"
Let Us Just Call it "Anti-German"
Let Us Just Call it "Anti-German"
There is no doubt that the ethnic German population of the USSR suffered a great deal of persecution and suffering from 1918 until 1955 in various waves. These include the events of the 1918-1921 Civil War, the 1921-1922 famine, the mass dekulakization of 1930-1931, the 1932-1933 Holodomor, the 1937-1938 Great Terror, and finally the mass internal deportations, special settlement restrictions, and mobilization into the labor army from 1941 to 1955. It is these last three events starting with the order to deport the Volga Germans to Siberia and Kazakhstan on 26 August 1941 that are commemorated on the 28th of August. The difference of two days is due to the fact that the SNK (Council of People’s Commissars) and Central Committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) issued a secret order to deport the Volga Germans on 26 August 1941 while the public decree by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was promulgated on 28 August 1941. This second decree was published in Russian in