List of massacres in the Soviet Union
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The following is a list of massacres that took place in the Soviet Union. For massacres that took place in countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, see the list of massacres in that country.
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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Execution of the Romanov family | 1918, July 16-17 | Yekaterinburg | 11 | Justified by the Bolsheviks as necessary to prevent the anti-communist White Army from rescuing them. The USSR repeatedly denied that Vladimir Lenin was responsible. |
Red Terror | 1918–1922 | Nationwide | 100,000–200,000[1][2] | For the purpose of political repression and suppression of armed resistance. |
First Decossackization | 1919–1920s | Don and Kuban regions | hundreds of thousands[citation needed] | Mass murder and genocide of cossacks. |
August Uprising | 1924 | Georgia | 7,000-10,000[3] | After the failed 1924 August uprising in Georgia, Red army detachments exterminated entire families, including women and children in a series of raids.[4] Mass executions also took place in prisons,[5] where people were shot without trial. Hundreds were shot directly in railway trucks, so that the dead bodies could be removed faster.[6] |
Kazakh famine of 1930–33 | 1930 - 1933 | Kazakhstan | 1.5 - 2.3 million[7] |
Ethnic Kazaks became a minority in Kazakhstan until 1990 due to the genocide. |
Case Spring | 1930–1931 | Russia | 3,000+[citation needed] | Over a thousand killed in St. Petersburg alone. First purge conducted by Stalin. |
Holodomor | 1932c- 1933 | Ukraine | 3.9 million+[8] | |
Great purge | 1936–1938 | Nationwide | 681,692–1,200,000[citation needed] | Ordered by Joseph Stalin. |
Polish Operation of the NKVD | 1937, August– 1938, November | Nationwide | 111,091[citation needed] | Largest ethnic shooting during the Great purge. |
Sandarmokh | 1937-38 | Sandarmokh, Karelia | 9,000[citation needed] | Mass executions of prisoners |
Vinnytsia massacre | 1937–1938 | Vinnytsia, Ukraine | 11,000[citation needed] | |
Katyn massacre | 1940, April–May | Katyn Forest, Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons | 22,000[citation needed] | Mass executions of Polish nationals by NKVD. |
NKVD prisoner massacres | 1941, June–July | Occupied Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Baltic states | ~100,000[citation needed] | |
Khatyn massacre | 1943, March 22 | Khatyn | 149[citation needed] | Propagandized in the USSR to cover phonetically similar Katyn massacre |
Khaibakh massacre | 1944, February 27 | Chechnya, Soviet Union | 230–700[citation needed] | During the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples. |
Kengir uprising | 1954, May 6 – June 26 | Kengir | 500–700[citation needed] | |
Novocherkassk massacre | 1962, June 1 – 2 | Novocherkassk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. | 26[citation needed] | |
Jeltoqsan massacre | 1986, December 16–19 | Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR | 168-200[citation needed] | |
Sumgait massacre | 1988, February 26 – March 1 | Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR | 32[citation needed] | |
Kirovabad pogrom | 1988, November | Kirovabad, Azerbaijan SSR | 7[citation needed] | |
January Massacre | 1990, January 19–20 | Baku, Azerbaijan | 133-137[citation needed] | Known also as the Black January (Qara Yanvar) |
Tbilisi Massacre | 1989, April 9 | Tbilisi, Georgia | 21[9][10] | hundreds of civilians wounded and killed with sapper spades[11] |
Vorkuta uprising | 1953, starting July 19 | Vorkuta | 42[citation needed] | |
Fântâna Albă massacre | 1941, April 1 | Northern Bukovina | 44–3,000[12][13] | |
January Events | 1991, January 11–13 | Vilnius, Lithuania | 14[14] | After Lithuania recently declared its independence, the USSR sent in the army to crackdown on the "nationalist government". Immediately, hundreds of thousands of unarmed Lithuanians went to the streets to defend the local parliament, TV tower, the radio station and other key buildings. 14 people died during the violence. In 2019, Lithuania sentenced 67 people for war crimes and crimes against humanity.[15] |
See also[]
- List of massacres in Russia
- Mass killings in the Soviet Union
References[]
- ^ "How the 'Red Terror' Exposed the True Turmoil of Soviet Russia 100 Years Ago". Time. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ^ "How Lenin's Red terror set a macabre course soviet union".
- ^ Pethybridge, Roger William (1990). One Step Backwards, Two Steps Forward: Soviet Society and Politics in the New Economic Policy. Oxford University. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-821927-9.
- ^ Lang, David-Marshall (1962). A Modern History of Soviet Georgia. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 243. ISBN 9780700715626.
- ^ Rummel, Rudolph J. Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917. Transaction Publishers.
- ^ Surguladze, Akaki. The History of Georgia. Tbilisi, Georgia.
- ^ "The Kazakh Famine of 1930-33 and the Politics of History in the Post-Soviet Space | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ "Holodomor | Facts, Definition, & Death Toll". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ Gegeshidze, Archil. "The 9 April tragedy — a milestone in the history of modern Georgia". ORF. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ^ Unlimited, Communications (2019-04-09). "Tbilisi Massacre". Communications Unlimited. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ Gegeshidze, Archil. "The 9 April tragedy — a milestone in the history of modern Georgia". ORF. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ^ "Un supraviețuitor al Masacrului de la Fântâna Albă vorbește după 71 de ani".
- ^ Oprea, Mircea (2016). "Expoziție cutremurătoare la Bruxelles: 75 de ani de la Masacrul de la Fântâna Albă" [Terrible exhibition in Brussels: 75 years since the Fântâna Albă Massacre]. rfi.ro (in Romanian). Radio France Internationale. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Lithuania remembers January 13, 1991".
- ^ "January 13, 1991. The night when Lithuania faced Soviet troops – through the eyes of ordinary people".
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