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Who was responsible for the forced upheaval of minorities from the Caucasus?

  • Leon Trotsky

  • Vladimir Lenin

  • Nikita Khrushchev

  • Lavrentiy Beria

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Lavrentiy Beria was responsible for the forced upheaval of minorities from the Caucasus during the early years of Joseph Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union. In 1936, Beria became the head of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, and used his position to target ethnic groups such as the Chechens, Ingush, and Crimean Tatars.
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