Soviet act of genocides against non-russians. The June deportations

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 Soviet 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.

According to KGB documents of 1988, in 1941 June deportations:

• 15171  deported from Latvia
• 15851  deported from Lithuania
• 9156    from Estonia
• 41645  from Ukraine
• 31754  from Belarus
• 29839  Moldova

Total 143 350 (approximately, figures differs from those, which were in the lists of camps)

(http://www.memo.ru/history/polacy/G2T30697.htm)

• 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.

Latvian Deportation

In one day of 14th of June 15171 or 0,74% of population of Latvia was deported, by Soviet Occupation forces to "GULAG"

• 81,27% deported were Latvians.
• 1,9% from deported were Jews, (2,5x higher % than average deported)
• 0,4% were Russians (2x lower % than average deported, russians were second largest national minority in occupied Latvia, made more than 11% from total population)

Many among arrested and deported were farmers come form countryside. Deportation of family members was based on administrative decison "due head of family deported" and according in advance prepared lists. "Head of family" anyway was seperated from family right after arrests, and  anyway cannot help family, especially women and girls, abused by guards or later by criminals.

Many were charged for exile for 25 years.

• after concentration of deported families in the railway stations, men were seperated from families
• 6222 or 43% persons had no any kind of legal charge, deportation was used as "measure of prevention"
• altogether in prisons and exile 5381 persons died / killed (34% from deported at 14/6/1941)
• the oldest person, (died on the road) - Dāvis Helvigs, born in 1865 (76 years)
• the youngest deported, (died on the road) was Arvīds Baumanis (one day, born in 14.06.1941)
• altogether 32 persons died on the road to final destination
• 2815 died in prisons, 2772 from them- "family members" (not legaly charged).
• the last ones died in prison from deported - farmer Paulis Graudins (died 22.11.1964, born 1903, spent in prison/exile 23 years from 25), farmer Vasilijs Brovins (died 17.06.1960 - 19 years in camp, at age of 64)
• 1696 persons died in the GULAG labor (concentration) camps of final destinations. 
• 341 person was executed (shot).
• the last executed (shot) person from June deportation was Boriss Jākobsons; exiled when he was 16 (shot in April 1950, born 1924, was 15 years old, when deported )

After the war, further deportations, known as Operation Priboi of 1949, were staged in a much larger scale.

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