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.
[4] Abakumov's notice listed the following planned numbers of deportees:[10] On March 3, 1951, the USSR Council of Ministers issued the corresponding decree (no.
However, this decree signed by Anastas Mikoyan stated that there would be no compensation for the confiscated property, and that return to their previous places of residence was subject to the approval of the local administrations.
Though released, Jehovah's Witnesses remained the subject of legal persecution due to their ideology classified as anti-Soviet.
378 of President of the Russian Federation of March 3, 1996, "On the Measures for Rehabilitation of the Priests and Believers who had become Victims of Unjustified Repressions" (О мерах по реабилитации священнослужителей и верующих, ставших жертвами необоснованных репрессий).