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The 1944 Deportation of the Meskhetian Turks was a mass expulsion carried out by the Soviet Union on November 14–15, 1944, during which approximately 90,000 to 117,000 Meskhetian Turks living in the Ahıska region of Georgia were forcibly relocated to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan under the pretext of “security.”Anadolu Ajansı. "Ahıska Türklerinin sürgün edilişinin 77. yılı." Son Erişim: 13.11.2025. https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/dunya/ahiska-turklerinin-surgun-edilisinin-77-yili/2420338">【

Bloody January (Bloody January, 20 January) is the name given to the events that occurred during the night of 19 January 1990 to 20 January 1990, when a Soviet military force of 26,000 troops intervened in Baku and several other cities of Azerbaijan. During the intervention, armored vehicles entered Baku from five directions; unarmed civilians were shot at; tanks and heavy armored vehicles were driven into civilian crowds; and ambulances and passenger buses were fired upon. On 19 January 1990, t

The 1944 Crimean Tatar Deportation is the event in which the Soviet Union forcibly and abruptly expelled the entire Crimean Tatar Turkish population from their homeland in Crimea, primarily to various regions of Central Asia including Uzbekistan, on 18 May 1944, on the grounds of their ethnic identity.This deportation was carried out within the framework of the Soviet regime’s forced relocation policies targeting certain ethnic groups; it resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands, the severing

The Battle of Stalingrad is one of the critical conflicts of World War II that changed the course of the war, occurring on the Eastern Front as part of Germany’s invasion of Soviet territory. The process that began with Germany’s attack on Soviet lands on 22 June 1941 is described in Soviet literature as the “Great Patriotic War”, and throughout all stages of the war, mass mobilization, ideological struggle, and the rhetoric of national defense were decisive.Stalingrad was chosen as a strategic