1927

Sovietization has broken the continuity of the Khvarshi society by destroying the structure of this ancient society and its institutions and by substituting its natural development with things alien and incomprehensible to the mind of mountain people.

• 35,000 Buryats were killed during rebellion, Buryats

• Soviet deported 20,000 Kalmyks to Siberia, tundra and Karelia

• The Fifteenth Party Congress of the Soviet Union passed a resolution calling for the "voluntary" collectivization of agriculture, but a shortage of grain in the following year was used as a pretext by the Soviet authorities to use force

• Tofalars needed a permit to hunt in their native forests.

• 1925-1930 Execution of Khanty tribal chiefs who were labelled "kulaks" followed by the execution of shamans

• 1922-1990 Belorussia was annexed by Bolshevist Russia

• 1920-1930 Godoberis people had been openly and violently suppressed. Later, more subtle and indirect means were used, but to equal effect. Gradually Communist ideology came to predominate and the resistance to Soviet rule subsided.

• 1920-1940 Ukraine, Bykivnia Graves. During the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union, it was one of the unmarked mass grave sites where the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, disposed of thousands of executed "enemies of the Soviet state" The number of dead bodies buried there is estimated 225 000

• 1800-2001 Russia annexing Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and deposing the Bagratids

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