
Originally Posted by
JohnJones
The worse part is when my people got scapegoated, removed from their homes and deported to Siberia by Stalin just because he thought we helped the Germans invade Russia.
They weren't given a timeframe on how long would they stay there. It was pretty much indefinite detention, and it was freezing cold. Many people died, and at the same time we were discouraged from speaking our language or practice our religion. By the time we were allowed to return to our region after WW2 most of the houses were already occupied by Russians.
Now the region is one of the poorest region in Russia after Chechnya.