Genocide of the Ingrian Finns

[7]) From 1935 onwards, the genocide manifested itself in deportations of entire Ingrian villages, mass arrests and executions, especially in 1937 and 1938 associated with the Great Purge.

The reason for the genocide was the skeptical attitude of the Soviet Union towards the Ingrian people due to their close cultural and historical relations with Finland.

[8] The Ingrian Finns were mainly independent small farmers in the 1920s and still in the early 1930s with relatively high literacy.

They forced propaganda for collectivization of the agriculture, reported the priests, helped arrest people and harassed Ingrian Finns and "Kulaks".

The deportations were carried out in a hurry and the housing, food and health care of the targeted people were severely deficient.

After the war, Soviet authorities did not allow the 55,000 people who had evacuated to Finland to settle back in Ingria, and instead resettled them in regions of central Russia.