Operation Priboi

When

25 Mar 1949 – 28 Mar 1949

Kind

Expulsion or deportation

Coordinates

59.00° N, 26.00° E

Description

code name for the Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949

Placed at the point Wikidata gives for Estonia, one of the countries it names.

Code name for mass deportations by the Soviet Union in 1949

Operation Priboi was the code name for the biggest illegal Stalin-era Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949. Also known as the March deportation. More than 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, labeled as "enemies of the state", were deported to forced settlements in inhospitable Siberian areas of the Soviet Union.

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• Wikidata: expulsions and deportationsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Operation Priboi: An extensive deportation campaign begins in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “opération Priboï ( « Lame de fond » ) ; déportation par les Soviétiques de plus estoniens, lituaniens et lettons, « familles de koulaks, nationalistes et…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la Unión Soviética, se da inicio a las deportaciones de Marzo, en dónde se haría una serie de deportaciones masivas de la repúblicas del báltico a Siberia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “蘇聯驅逐波羅的海地區部分居民至西伯利亞。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page