According to historian Zhores Medvedev, such a massive deportation would have been very difficult.

However, these few examples are not indicative of massive deportations of Greeks to central Asia.

The Soviets carried out massive deportations to eliminate any resistance to collectivisation or support of partisans.

Baring knew the massive deportations to the already-overcrowded reserves could only make things worse.

The Soviet used massive deportations to eliminate the resistance of collectivisation and the support of partisans.

It also served "as a staging area for massive deportations of primarily women, children, and elderly men."

There were massive deportations and repressions.

The massive deportation and killings of Armenians began in the spring 1915.

Conquered by the English, they suffered massive deportations to the United States and France.

Thus began massive "deportations" of about 254,000 Jews, all of whom were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp.