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Events on Saturday 21 August 1937 1
1937Deportation of Koreans from the Soviet Far EastStalin deports the Korean minority to Central AsiaA Soviet decree of 21 August 1937 ordered the removal of the Korean population from the Far East border regions. About 170,000 people were moved by train to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was the first mass deportation of an entire nationality in the Soviet Union.