![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldBoth populations were deported from their homelands by the Soviet Union under Stalin. Two excellent comparative studies are Lee Chai-Mun's "The Lost Sheep: The Soviet Deportations of Ethnic Koreans and Volga Germans". (PDF format) and "A Comparative Study on the Forced Deportations of Two Ethnic Groups: Soviet Koreans and Volga Germans". The deportation of the Koreans has always seen particularly gratuitous. How could Stalin have plausibly suspected the Koreans in the Far East of pro-Japanese sympathies, since most of them had fled their homeland because of the Japanese occupation?
