1944

Volga Germans and seven (non-Slavic) nationalities of the Crimea and the northern Caucasus were deported: the Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Karachays, and Meskhetian Turks. All Crimean Tatars were deported en masse, in a form of collective punishment

• 63,227 Ingrian refugees, including the Votes and the Izhorians, had left for Finland. Finland had to return them to the Soviet Union after the armistice. 55,773 Ingrians arrived and were scattered to the regions of Novgorod, Kalinin, Vologda, Sverdlovsk, etc. Some years after the war even those children of Ingrian descent that had been adopted by Finnish families were reclaimed by the Soviet Union.

• Declaration of war and an invasion by the USSR to Bulgaria

• Nemmersdorf massacre, Soviet soldiers against German civilians and French and Belgian noncombatants. All the dead females had been raped (they ranged in age from 8 to 84).

• Izhorians were deported to the Novgorod, Kalinin, Vologda and Jaroslavl regions.

• Eastern Galicia is conquered by the Soviet Union and eventually annexed to Ukraine

• Soviet government forcibly deported almost the entire Balkar population to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Omsk Oblast in Siberia.

• Lithuania. Soviet authorities executed thousands of resistance fighters and civilians accused of aiding them. Some 300,000 Lithuanians were deported or sentenced to prison camps on political grounds. It is estimated that Lithuania lost almost 780,000 citizens as a result of Soviet occupation, of which around 440,000 were war refugees

• Khaibakh massacre was a mass execution of the Chechen civilian population. Russians burn the 704 people alive

• 522,000 Chechens, Ingush, Balkars deported from North Caucasus to Kazakh SSR, Kyrgyz SSR

• 3,000 Kalmyks deported from Rostov Oblast (Russian SFSR) to Siberia

• 3,000 Kurds and Azeris deported from Tbilisi (Georgian SSR) to Southern Georgian SSR

• 100 Balkars deported from Northern Georgian SSR to Kazakh SSR, Kyrgyz SSR

• 191,014 Crimean Tatars deported from Crimea to Uzbek SSR

• 42,000 Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, Turks deported from Crimea to Uzbek SSR

• 26,000 Kalmyks deported from Northeastern regions to Central Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR

• 1,000 Kalmyks deported from Volgograd Oblast (Russian SFSR) to Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russian SFSR)

• 2,000 Kabardins deported from Kabardino-Balkar ASSR, (Russian SFSR) to Southern Kazakh SSR

• 1,000 Russian True Orthodox Church members deported from Central Russian SFSR to Siberia

• 30,000 Poles deported from Ural, Siberia, Kazakh SSR to Ukrainian SSR, European Russia

• 92,000 Meskhetian Turks, Kurds, Hamshenis, Karapapaks deported from Southwestern Georgian SSR to Uzbek SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kyrgyz SSR

• 1,000 Lazes and other inhabitants of the border zone from Ajarian ASSR (Georgian SSR) to Uzbek SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kyrgyz SSR

• 1,000 Members of the Volksdeutsche families deported from Mineralnye Vody (Russian SFSR) to Siberia (according to other sources Tajik SSR)

• Ukraine, The Korsun slaughter. Soviet tanks drove into the two German columns crushing hundreds under their tracks. Fleeing in panic, the troops were then bombed and shelled before being confronted by units of Cossack cavalry who started hacking them to pieces with their sabres and in the short space of three hours around 20,000 German soldiers lay dead, their bodies later dumped in holes dug in the ground. The hundreds of wounded and medical personnel left behind were butchered by the Cossacks. (Russian sources put the number of dead during the two weeks of fighting at over 70,000)

• Estonia. Battle of Tannenberg Line was a military engagement between the German Army Detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front. They fought for the strategically important Narva Isthmus from 25 July to 10 August 1944. The battle was fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. The strategic aim of the Soviet Estonian Operation was to reoccupy Estonia as a favourable base for the invasions of Finland and East Prussia. Several Western scholars refer to it as the Battle of the European SS for the 24 volunteer infantry battalions from Denmark, East Prussia, Flanders, Holland, Norway, and Wallonia within the Waffen-SS. Roughly half of the infantry consisted of local Estonian conscripts motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation. The German force of 22,250 men held off 136,830 Soviet troops. As the Soviet forces were constantly reinforced, the casualties of the battle were 150,000–200,000 dead and wounded Soviet troops and 157–164 tanks.

• 1944-1945 Lapland War, Finland

• 1944-1956 Poland, Fights against Cursed soldiers

• 1944-1945 The Siege of Budapest, Hungary

• 1944-1949 Fights against Ukrainian Insurgent Army

• 1944-1949 Fights against Werwolf, Poland

• 1944-1949 Ili Rebellion, Soviet-backed revolt by the Second East Turkestan Republic against the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China

• 1944-1958 Romania remained under the direct military occupation and economic control of the USSR

• 1944-1945 Nazi atrocities ended by late 1944, but they were replaced by Soviet oppression with the advance of Red Army forces. Soviet soldiers often engaged in plunder, rape and other crimes against the Poles, causing the population to fear and hate the regime

• 1944-1945 Russian Red Army rape, tortured and killed about 120 000 children and woman in occupied areas.

• 1943-1944 Some 1.9 million people were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics by Soviet government.

• 1942-1954 Involvment in Hukbalahap Rebellion, Philippines

• 1941-1944 Finland. Soviet partisan units conducted raids deep inside Finnish territory, attacking villages and other civilian targets. The partisans usually executed their military and civilian prisoners after a minor interrogation

• 1941-1949 Nearly 3.3 million people were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics

• 1941–1946 Invasion to Northern Iran

• 1941-1944 Continuation War, Finland / Karelia

• 1941-1944 Finland. Around 3,500 Finnish prisoners of war, of whom five were women, were captured by the Red Army. Their mortality rate is estimated to have been about 40 percent. The most common causes of death were hunger, cold and oppressive transportation

• 1941-1945 World War II

• 1940-1991 Occupation and annexation of Estonia

• 1940-1991 Occupation and annexation of Latvia

• 1940-1991 Occupation and annexation of Lithuania. The Soviet annexation resulted in mass terror, the destruction of civil liberties, the economic system and Lithuanian culture.

• 1940-1953 More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been deported from the Baltic States by the Soviet regime

• 1940-1951 The Soviet deportations of 400 000 people from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

• 1940-1991 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

• 1940–1944 Insurgency in Chechnya, Chechens and Ingush people

• 1939-1956 Polish resistance movement

• 1938-1953 Russia, Butovo firing range. Location where more than 20,000 political prisoners were shot during the Great Terror of the Soviet Union

• 1937-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War

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

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