List all the crimes they have committed for everyone to see. Exclude the crimes they committed against their own people, exclude acts of war, and exclude the current crimes they are committing against Ukrainian civilians. We will only account for the crimes they committed against foreign ethnic groups under their rule in history.
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In 1900, in Hailanpao/Jiangdong Liushisitu, Russia carried out a massacre against the local indigenous people, resulting in over 7,000 deaths, most of whom were Chinese. The remaining residents were all driven from their homes and fled to the southern bank of the Heilongjiang River. Although they suffered a massacre and lost their homes, compared to the ethnic groups mentioned below, they were still considered extremely fortunate.
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From 1927 to 1932, in Belarus/Ukraine, the Soviet Union launched the "Elimination of Wealthy Peasants" and "Agricultural Collectivization" movements. 500,000 Belarusian and 1.5 million Ukrainian wealthy peasants were stripped of everything and forcibly expelled from their homes, with some being driven to the Urals and Siberia to engage in "socialist industrial construction." They and their descendants never returned to their homeland. The famous tennis star Maria Sharapova, born in Siberia, is a descendant of Belarusian refugees. Another portion of these wealthy peasants was exiled to Central Asia to "engage in agricultural and pastoral production," where their fate was even more tragic, as they perished in hunger and cold, essentially disappearing within a few years.
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From 1932 to 1933, in Ukraine, the forced implementation of "collective agriculture" led to widespread crop failures, followed by the Soviet Union's plundering requisition of grain, resulting in a famine across Ukraine, known as the "breadbasket of Europe," with at least 3.6 million starving to death, while other estimates suggest 7 million. During this period, to suppress the starving population's resistance, another 200,000 Ukrainian peasants were exiled to Central Asia, mainly in Kazakhstan.
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From 1934 to 1937, in the Far East, the Soviet Union forcibly relocated the Korean ethnic group, which had settled there for at least two generations, to Central Asia. 200,000 people, including the elderly and children, were scattered and exiled to the harsh lands of Central Asia, with 20% of the victims unable to survive the first winter.
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From 1937 to 1938, in the middle reaches of the Volga River, the Soviet Union forcibly relocated ethnic Germans who had lived there for over a hundred years to the barren lands of Central Asia. 800,000 people were uprooted, with 50% dying during the subsequent five years of hunger and cold. After this, there were several more mass exiles, with the total number exceeding 1.2 million.
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In 1944, in Chechnya, 400,000 Chechens were forcibly exiled on foot to Kazakhstan, over a thousand kilometers away, with 150,000 dying en route, including women, children, and the elderly. When they were allowed to return to their homeland in 1957, only 200,000 survivors made the journey back. However, their original homes had already been occupied by Russian immigrants. The returning refugees had no choice but to rebuild their new homes from scratch in a foreign land.
There were far too many ethnic groups exiled by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia to list them all; it is simply impossible to write them all down.
Here, I will directly quote the article "New Imperial Syndrome: The Crux of Post-Soviet National Issues" by Eastern European studies scholar Jin Yan:
In December 1943, the Karachai and Kalmyk people were completely relocated from the Caucasus; in February 1944, the Ingush and Chechen people were relocated; in March, the Balkar people were relocated; in May, the Crimean Tatars were relocated; in June, the Greeks of Crimea were expelled from their homes; and in November, the Meskhetian Turks and Hemshin people of Georgia were relocated. The places of exile for these ethnic groups were all sparsely populated barren lands in Central Asia, mainly in Kazakhstan.
By the time of Stalin's death in 1953, the number of people classified as "special settlers" who had been relocated was 2,753,356, including 1.2 million Germans, 316,000 Chechens, 84,000 Ingush, 165,000 Tatars, 100,000 Lithuanians, 81,000 Kalmyks, 63,000 Karachai, 52,000 Greeks, 50,000 Meskhetian Turks, 45,000 Moldovans, 40,000 Letts, and 20,000 Estonians. These numbers do not include those who were imprisoned or executed, nor do they account for deaths from freezing, starvation, or disease.
If we also consider the number of those executed and those who died from freezing, starvation, or disease, the official statistics above could easily be doubled, if not more. In fact, there are many early exiled ethnic groups that are not included in the statistics, such as the Korean ethnic group mentioned earlier, who are even more tragic, as they are not recognized as exiles, and their original ethnic identity has been directly erased.
The ethnic governments of these "punished nations" were simultaneously abolished, and the so-called "autonomous entities for minority nationalities" had no rights whatsoever. The oppressed ethnic groups were forced to endure extreme physical and psychological trauma—humiliation and loss of collective dignity—becoming "double minorities" without legal status, with their territories divided among other republics or new administrative units established.
In their places of resettlement, these people were stripped of basic civil rights and faced various strict restrictions. They could only reside in designated "special residential areas," with roadblocks and sentries set up around their living areas. Immigrants could not come and go freely, and they had to register monthly with the local internal affairs department. Communist Party members had to be escorted by armed police to attend party meetings, and they could not use their ethnic language to establish schools, publish books, or newspapers. For example, the Germans originally had five universities and four hundred primary and secondary schools, but there were no schools in the resettlement areas; the Crimean Tatars originally had nine newspapers, three magazines, one academy of sciences, and one national theater. The forced education in Russian significantly lowered the cultural level of these ethnic groups.
The excerpt from Jin Yan's narrative above emphasizes the iron-fisted approach of the Red Russians in destroying the cultures of other ethnic groups. Indeed, their atrocities have had significant effects. The descendants of the survivors who remained in the area have largely lost their ethnic self-identity and have become "Central Asian orphans." They can no longer return to their distant homeland, and the local area is their only home, but in the eyes of the indigenous people, they are still considered outsiders. They can only speak the language of their oppressors—Russian—which constantly reminds the world of the immense humiliation and disaster that the Russians inflicted on their ancestors. In human history, who else has committed such large-scale acts of genocide against foreign ethnic groups?