What was the main reason for the deportation of Soviet Volga Germans to Karaganda?
Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union
Economic reasons
Religious persecution
Political dissent
Answer
In the 1940s, up to 70% of Karaganda's inhabitants were ethnic Germans, most of whom were Soviet Volga Germans. They were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan on Stalin's order when Hitler invaded Soviet-annexed eastern Poland and the Soviet Union proper in 1941.
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