- Location
- Soviet Union and occupied territories
- Date
- 1930–1952
- Target
- Kulaks (well-off peasants), ethnic minorities, clergy, undesirable citizens of Soviet and occupied territories
- Attack type
- Ethnic cleansing , population transfer , forced labor , genocide , classicide
- Deaths
- ~800,000 –1,500,000 in the USSR
- Victims
- 6,000,000 Soviet citizens deported to forced settlements in the Soviet Union
- Perpetrators
- OGPU / NKVD
- Motive
- Russification , colonialism , cheap labor for forced settlements in the Soviet Union