The Myth that Jews were the Ethnic Group most Persecuted by the Soviet Regime: Part Two: The National Deportations and Special Settlement Regime.
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The first part of this article dealt with the mass arrests and executions in the USSR from 1936-1938 and which natsional’nosty were most effected. It concluded that Poles, Latvians, Finns, and Germans were disproportionately arrested and sentenced to death by the NKVD during these years. Russians and Ukrainians were underrepresented among those arrested and executed in relation to their population size in the USSR. Jews were just barely over represented among arrests with 2.1% versus 1.8% of the Soviet population. There was no Jewish Operation so it is not possible to try and figure out how many Jews were executed at this time in the same manner as Poles, Latvians, Finns, and Germans. But, given what information we do have it was probably also just slightly higher than their percentage in the general population and far below that of the Poles, Latvians, Finns, and Germans.
The Myth that Jews were the Ethnic Group most Persecuted by the Soviet Regime: Part Two: The National Deportations and Special Settlement Regime.
The Myth that Jews were the Ethnic Group most…
The Myth that Jews were the Ethnic Group most Persecuted by the Soviet Regime: Part Two: The National Deportations and Special Settlement Regime.
The first part of this article dealt with the mass arrests and executions in the USSR from 1936-1938 and which natsional’nosty were most effected. It concluded that Poles, Latvians, Finns, and Germans were disproportionately arrested and sentenced to death by the NKVD during these years. Russians and Ukrainians were underrepresented among those arrested and executed in relation to their population size in the USSR. Jews were just barely over represented among arrests with 2.1% versus 1.8% of the Soviet population. There was no Jewish Operation so it is not possible to try and figure out how many Jews were executed at this time in the same manner as Poles, Latvians, Finns, and Germans. But, given what information we do have it was probably also just slightly higher than their percentage in the general population and far below that of the Poles, Latvians, Finns, and Germans.