1946
the Soviet Union begins a secret program of biological weapons (plague, smallpox, anthrax) at Sverdlovsk Famine kills one million people...
1945
A treaty ceding Carpatho-Ukraine to the Soviet Union was signed between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union 450 000 civilians dead in...
1944
Volga Germans and seven (non-Slavic) nationalities of the Crimea and the northern Caucasus were deported: the Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks,...
1943
Mandalada (Yamal Revolt), Nenets people against Soviet Russia Russia deported all Kalmyks to Siberia, where around half of them died...
1942
Nearly all of the able-bodied German population was conscripted into NKVD labor columns. 25,000--30,000 Finns were deported to Siberia...
1941
Estonia. Some 34,000 Estonians were drafted into the Red Army, of whom less than 30% survived the war. No more than half of those men...
1940
Stalin carried out further purges of the Komi intellectual class Two Soviet bombers downed the Finnish passenger aeroplane "Kaleva"...
1939
The Soviet Union and Japan fight a border war at Nomonhan that leaves 18 thousand Japanese dead Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Nazi–Soviet...
1938
Kets people resistance was subdued The communist regime of Mongolia destroys 900 temples and kills thousands of Buddhists 6,000 Persian...
1937
The Soviet policy of violent oppression begun, aimed at all minorities in the Soviet Union The Soviet authorities started to oppress the...
