re: #233 halldor

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: [Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

But, beyond language differences, how ethnically different from Russians were they? Certainly nothing like as different as Gypsies and Jews.