Stalin - national minorities Flashcards
1
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Poland
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Satellite state after WW1.
2
Q
Ukraine - 3 things
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Bread basket of Russia - crucial to collectivisation. Opposition led to purges and deliberate starvation. Nazi collaborators shot.
3
Q
Caucasus - 2 things
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Full republic status to Georgia under 1936 constitution. 1940s - 480,000 Chechens and 200,000 Kurds were exiled to Asia and Siberia.
4
Q
Finland
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Won Winter War in 1939-40. But Finland remained separate after WW2.
5
Q
Baltics
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Took control after WW2
6
Q
Anti-semitic (2 things)
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Banned Jewish religion. Doctors Plot 1952 - 15 Jewish leaders killed
