June deportation

Latvians in railcars in the process of deportation in 1941

June deportation (Estonian: Juuniküüditamine, Latvian: Jūnija deportācijas, Lithuanian: Birželio trėmimai) was the first in the series of mass Soviet deportations of tens of thousands of people from the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova starting June 14, 1941 that followed the occupation and annexation of the Baltic states. The procedure for deporting the "anti-Soviet elements" was approved by Ivan Serov in the so-called Serov Instructions. Men were generally imprisoned and most of them died in Siberian prison camps (see Gulag); women and children were resettled in Kirov, Tomsk, Omsk and Novosibirsk Oblast as well as Krasnoyarsk and Altai Krai. About a half of them eventually survived.

After the war, further deportations, known as Operation Priboi, were staged in a much larger scale.

Occupation of the Baltic states

Background Timeline Soviet occupation (1940) Nazi occupation (1941) Soviet re-occupation (1944)

Diplomatic treaties in 1939	German–Lithuanian Pact (March 23, 1939) German–Estonian Pact German–Latvian Pact (June 7, 1939) Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (August 23, 1939) Soviet–Estonian Treaty (September 28, 1939) Soviet–Latvian Treaty (October 5, 1939) Soviet–Lithuanian Treaty (October 10, 1939)

Massacres and repressions	Maslenki (1940) Rainiai massacre (1941) Kautla massacre (1941)

Deportations	June deportation (1941) Operation Priboi (1949) by country from Estonia from Latvia from Lithuania

Resistance	Guerilla war Forest Brothers Latvian Lithuanian Estonian Legion Latvian Legion Operation Jungle

Research and investigation	Kersten Committee Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania

Art and media	Between Shades of Gray Nobody Wanted to Die Utterly Alone

June deportation

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