DEPORTATIONS IN RUSSIA
REPORT RECEIVED BY U.S. GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON, October 17. The State Department said to-day that it had received reports confirming the mass deportation of about 17,000 Greeks from the Black Sea area of Russia to scattered collective farms in Kazakhstan, in Soviet Central Asia. The department said that other nationalities, principally Turks and Persians, living in this area were also being deported. These reports, the department said, told of Russian secret police making night raids on Caucasian towns and removing all persons of foreign origin, regardless of families or citizenship, and shipping them in cattle cars without food or. water for the two-week trip to Kazakhstan. Asked if any reason were known for these mass deportations, a State Department official said: “As pure speculation, troop movements in the area are the only conceivable reason.” He added that the United States Government did not believe that there were any preparations for an an attack on Turkey or Persia.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 7, 19 October 1949, Page 5
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