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Soviet-era persecution and deportation of Ingrian Finns
Repeated waves of Soviet deportation and persecution reduced the Ingrian Finn population from roughly 150,000 to around 50,000 between the late 1920s and 1939, continuing through the 1940s.
What happened
From 1929 to 1942, Soviet authorities carried out repeated waves of deportation, forced collectivization and persecution against the Ingrian Finn population, including deportation waves of around 18,000 people (1929-1931), 7,000 (1935) and 26,000-27,000 (1936), and the deportation of essentially all remaining Ingrian Finns (around 20,000) in early 1942; the pre-persecution Ingrian Finn population of 140,000-160,000 had fallen to around 50,000 by 1939.[1]
Russian legislation in the 1990s characterized this persecution as genocide, and President Boris Yeltsin rehabilitated Russian Finns after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, though the Russian state did little to provide compensation or property restoration.[2]
Sources for this page
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Claim: From 1929 to 1942, Soviet authorities carried out repeated waves of deportation, forced collectivization and persecution against the Ingrian Finn population, including deportation waves of around 18,000 people (1929-1931), 7,000 (1935) and 26,000-27,000 (1936), and the deportation of essentially all remaining Ingrian Finns (around 20,000) in early 1942; the pre-persecution Ingrian Finn population of 140,000-160,000 had fallen to around 50,000 by 1939.
- Genocide of the Ingrian Finns (Wikipedia) link, Timeline and deportation-figures sections. Source record
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Claim: Russian legislation in the 1990s characterized the Soviet-era persecution of Ingrian Finns as genocide, and President Boris Yeltsin rehabilitated Russian Finns after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, though the Russian state did little to provide compensation or property restoration; the characterization of these events as genocide, as opposed to another category of mass persecution, remains disputed among scholars.
- Genocide of the Ingrian Finns (Wikipedia) link, Terminology and recognition section. Source record