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The Greek Operation ((ロシア語:Греческая Операция), translit. Grecheskaya Operatsiya; (ウクライナ語:Грецька операція)) was an organised mass persecution of the 450,000 Greeks of the Soviet Union that was ordered by Joseph Stalin. Greeks often use the term "pogrom" for this persecution, though this term usually refers to mob violence rather than persecution by police acting under direct orders, as this one was.〔(Το πογκρόμ κατά των Ελλήνων της ΕΣΣΔ ), ''ΕΛΛΑΔΑ'', 09.12.2007 〕 It began on December 15б 1937 and marked the beginning of the repressions against Greeks went on for 13 years.〔("Репрессии в 1930-1950 гг. по отношению к грекам СССР" )〕 ==History== Under Stalinism, the USSR considered some ethnicities to be "progressive" and some others to be "reactionary".〔 Reactionary nations included the Greeks, the Koreans, the Volga Germans, the Crimean Tatars, the Chechens, and others.〔 Stalin considered that everyone who was born of a "capitalist" ethnicity was an enemy of his regime, no matter their personal political beliefs.〔 Many of the Greeks who came to Russia, particularly to the Black Sea region, had been involved in trading - by definition a "bourgeois" way of life. The late 1930s was the time of the Moscow Show Trials and of mass purges of people perceived as a threat by Stalin, targeting also many people of Russian ethnic origin, as well as many foreign Communists resident in the Soviet Union. The persecution of Soviet Greeks should be seen in this general context. The prosecution of Greeks in USSR was gradual: at first the authorities shut down the Greek schools, cultural centres, and publishing houses.〔 Then, the secret police indiscriminately arrested all Greek men 16 years old or older.〔 All Greeks who were wealthy or self-employed professionals were sought for prosecution first.〔 On many occasions, the central authorities sent telegrams to police forces with orders to arrest a certain number of Greeks, without giving any individual names,〔 and the police officers were expected to arrest at random any person of Greek origin until they reached the requested total number of arrests, until the process was repeated at a later date. In all, some 50,000 Greeks were affected, more than 10% of the entire community of about 450,000.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greek Operation of NKVD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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