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The operation Golden Fleece was the humanitarian operation carried out by Greece in 1993 to evacuate over 1,000 native Greeks from Georgia fleeing the War in Abkhazia.[1][2]
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Greeks in Abkhazia
After World War II, ethnic Greeks of the Abkhaz ASSR were deported on Stalin's order in 1949-1950. They were allowed to return in the late 1950s, however their number never reached pre-deportation level.[3]
Most of the Greeks fled Abkhazia (mostly to Greece and Russia) during and after the 1992-1993 war so that their number dropped from 14,664 in 1989 to just 1,486 in 2003.[4]
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References
- ^ Kalamvrezos, Dionyssis (3 September 2008). "The anniversary of Operation Golden Fleece to evacuate diaspora Greeks from war in Abkhazia". Kathimerini. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_100003_09/08/2003_32859. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
- ^ "The government’s orderly and thorough evacuation". Kathimerini. 1 September 2008. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_1_09/08/2003_32857. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
- ^ Otto Pohl, J. (1999). Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 119–128. ISBN 0313309213.
- ^ 2003 Census statistics (Russian)
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