<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Around 30,000 citizens of pre-war Czechoslovakia were persecuted in the Soviet Union, at least 5.000 originated from Czech lands. One of the groups consist of the people who in the period of 1939-1942 sought refuge in the USSR from German or Hungarian Nazism, or who wanted to actively fight against it. They ended up in the Gulag, from which they were freed during an amnesty linked to the creation of a Czechoslovak unit in the USSR. Many were Czechoslovak Jews, including those who escaped from the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Nisko, while thousands were inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia. </p></abstract>

Around 30,000 citizens of pre-war Czechoslovakia were persecuted in the Soviet Union, at least 5.000 originated from Czech lands. One of the groups consist of the people who in the period of 1939-1942 sought refuge in the USSR from German or Hungarian Nazism, or who wanted to actively fight against it. They ended up in the Gulag, from which they were freed during an amnesty linked to the creation of a Czechoslovak unit in the USSR. Many were Czechoslovak Jews, including those who escaped from the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Nisko, while thousands were inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia.

A Repression of Czechoslovak Citizens in the USSR

Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies

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Around 30,000 citizens of pre-war Czechoslovakia were persecuted in the Soviet Union, at least 5.000 originated from Czech lands. One of the groups consist of...

A Repression of Czechoslovak Citizens in the USSR

Published Online: Sep 08, 2015

Page range: 73 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/auseur-2015-0007

Keywords
repression, persecutions, refugees, Czechoslovak citizens, Czechoslovak Jews, SMERSH, NKVD, forced labour, victims, witnesses

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Repression of Czechoslovak Citizens in the USSR

Published Online: Sep 08, 2015

Page range: 73 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/auseur-2015-0007

Keywordsrepression, persecutions, refugees, Czechoslovak citizens, Czechoslovak Jews, SMERSH, NKVD, forced labour, victims, witnesses

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
repression, persecutions, refugees, Czechoslovak citizens, Czechoslovak Jews, SMERSH, NKVD, forced labour, victims, witnesses