It is being reported by reputable news agencies that Russian authorities are moving thousands of people from the annexed areas of Ukraine to Russia including to remote parts of the country, east of the Urals.
Stalin did likewise in moving millions of citizens of Ukraine and the Baltic States to Siberia.
On this day, October 22, 1946 over 2,200 engineers and technicians from the German Democratic Republic were forced to relocate in Russia. Their families accompanied them in the forced move.
Russia has a long history in moving people east.
Dostoevsky served time in a penal colony in Siberia.
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