What the records say
- When
- 22 May 1948 – 24 May 1948
- Kind
- Expulsion or deportation
- Coordinates
- 55.50° N, 24.00° E
- Description
- Soviet deportation from Lithuania
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Operation Vesna
Soviet deportation from Lithuania
Operation Vesna was a mass deportation of the armed opposition to Soviet rule in occupied Lithuania carried out by the Ministry of State Security (MGB) on May 22–24, 1948.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Soviets launch Operation Vesna, the largest Lithuanian deportation to Siberia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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