Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I raro i ngā whakahau a Joseph Stalin i kawea e te Soviet Union he nekehanga takoha o ngā rōpū rerekē i mua, i te wā, i muri hoki o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao (mai i ngā tau 1930 tae noa ki ngā tau 1950). I te wā o te whakahekenga o Hune
o te tau 1941, i muri i te whakaekenga o nga whenua o Baltic, o Eastern Poland me Moldavia, i whakaaetia e te Soviet Union me Nazi Germany i roto i te Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, i roto i te ngana ki te whakawhiu i nga whenua mo to ratou whakauru i roto i te Soviet Union, i peia e te Soviet Union nga mano tini o nga tangata harakore ki Siberia.