March deportation

March deportation

March deportation ( _et. märtsiküüditamine) is the name commonly used in Estonia for the mass deportation from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to facilitate the forced collectivisation of rural households and to eliminate the support base for the insurgency by the Forest Brothers against Soviet rule [cite journal |last=Strods |first=Heinrihs |authorlink= |coauthors=Kott, Matthew |year=2002 |title=The File on Operation 'Priboi': A Re-Assessment of the Mass Deportations of 1949 |journal=Journal of Baltic Studies |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=1–36 |url=http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=v39u012674tmk1jj |accessdate= 2008-03-25 ] . The wave started on March 25, 1949. Altogether around 92,000 people were deported.

From Estonia, around 20,000 people were deported, mostly women and children, and resettled mostly in Krasnoyarsk krai and Novosibirsk oblast (see Gulag).

The deportation fulfilled its purposes: within a few following weeks, almost all of the rural households had submitted to the terror and "voluntarily" accepted collectivisation.

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