Place
Uzbekistan
Country in Central Asia; a Soviet republic until 1991.
- Also known as
- Uzbek SSR
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Connections 3
involved in
- Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (1944) main destination Primary record 12
- Deportation of the Koreans of the Soviet Far East (1937) named as a destination Scholarship & press 3
- Deportation of the Meskhetian Turks (1944) where most were exiled; the Fergana killings of June 1989 Scholarship & press 4
Proof 4 sources
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State Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss, "On the Crimean Tatars", 11 May 1944, Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, University of Illinois, 11 May 1944.
Primary record
1. All Tatars are to be banished from the territory of the Crimea and resettled permanently as special settlers in the regions of the Uzbek SSR. The resettlement will be assigned to the Soviet NKVD. The Soviet NKVD (comrade Beria) is to complete the resettlement by 1 June 1944.
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The Deportation and Fate of the Crimean Tatars, International Committee for Crimea (paper for the Association for the Study of Nationalities, April 2000), Apr 2000.
Scholarship & press
The Uzbeks met the exiled Crimean Tatars with hostility.
Not only did the Uzbeks refuse to assist the dislocated Crimean Tatars, but in some cases they stoned them.
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Tragic page of the history of the Korean people (with the text of the resolution of 21 August 1937), Qazaqstan tarihy (e-history.kz), 1 Sep 2017.
Scholarship & press
To propose to the Far Eastern Territorial Party Committee (Bolsheviks) and the NKVD of the Far Eastern Territory to evict all Korean population of the border regions of the Far East and relocate to the South Kazakhstan region, to the Aral Sea and Balkhash and the Uzbek SSR.
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Population transfer: the tragedy of the Meskhetian Turks, Cultural Survival Quarterly.
Scholarship & press
This was the case up until June 1989, when Uzbek extremists took part in a horrible mass slaughter of the Turks in the Fergana Valley.
According to official (and most probably low) figures, 97 people died, over 1,000 were wounded, and 752 houses were burned to the ground. Before the massacre, about 100,000 Turks lived in Uzbekistan. Now fewer than 20,000 remain.
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