Back Şimal əməliyyatı AZ Аперацыя «Поўнач» BE Operation Nord German Επιχείρηση Βορράς Greek Operación Norte Spanish Operatsioon Sever ET Opération Nord French Հյուսիս գործողություն HY Operasjon Nord NB Operacja Północ Polish
Operation North (Russian: Операция "Север") was the code name which was assigned by the USSR Ministry of State Security[1] to the massive deportation of Jehovah's Witnesses[2] and their families to Siberia in the Soviet Union on 1 and 8 April 1951.[3][4][5][6]
- ^ "Operation North" (in Russian)
- ^ In Soviet documents, the group was often called the Jehovists. In the footnotes to his book Against Their Will, Pavel Polyan notes that the Soviets were probably unaware of the existence of another Russian religious group which also had the same name in Russian
- ^ Валерий Пасат ."Трудные страницы истории Молдовы (1940–1950)". Москва: Изд. Terra, 1994 (in Russian)
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
kphgwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Charles King, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, Hoover Institution Press, 2000, p.96
- ^ "50th Anniversary of the Operation North" Archived 2012-02-18 at archive.today, Bulletin #23, 2001, of the Memorial Society (in Russian)