re: #230 Salamantis

unlike in Nazi Germany, where Jews and Gypsies were singled out for extermination, the millions massacred in the Stalinist Soviet Union were not murdered because they were members of any particular race or ethnic group

During the period 1941-1949 alone, ethnic groups totalling an estimated 3.3 million people were deported by Stalin to Siberia and the Central Asian republics. Around 43% of these deportees died as a result of disease and malnutrition. The figure for the period 1939-1953 is much higher. Some examples of deported ethnic groups:

Poles (1939-1941 and 1944-1945)
Romanians (1941 and 1944-1953)
Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians (1941 and 1945-1949)
Volga Germans (1941)
Chechens, Ingush (1944)

See: en.wikipedia.org