Starobiesk. and Ostachkov. The approximately 5.000 held at Kozielsk were taken into the Katyn Forest in April 1940 and there shot and buried in mass graves. These were discovered when the Germans occupied the area. It had long been Soviet practice to deport suspect minority nationalities from border areas. In 1941. and in 1943 and 1944. the politburo ordered and organized the deportation of eight national groups. totaling 1 V million people. These nations were sent en bloc. men. women. and children. to various part of Soviet Asia. The death rate ranged from about 25 percent to over 46 percent.
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