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The forced labour of Hungarians in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II was not researched until the fall of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. While exact numbers are not known, it is estimated that up to 600,000 Hungarians were deported, including an estimated 200,000 civilians. An estimated 200,000 perished.[1] Hungarian forced labour was part of a larger system of foreign forced labour in the Soviet Union.
In addition, an unknown number of Hungarians were deported from Transylvania to the Soviet Union in the context of the Romania-Hungary Transylvanian dispute. In 1944, many Hungarians were accused by Romanians of being "partisans" and transferred to the Soviet administration. In early 1945, during the "de-Germanisation" campaign[2] all Hungarians with German names were sent to the Soviet Union, in accordance with Soviet Order 7161.[3]
^Tamás Stark,
(in Hungarian) „Malenki Robot" Magyar kényszermunkások a Szovjetunióban (1944–1955) Archived 2008-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
(in English) "Malenki Robot" – Hungarian Forced Labourers in the Soviet Union (1944–1955)
^On September 26, 1944 the Romanian Council of Minister passed a decree on the dissolution of German nationality
^Mária Gál, Balogh Attila Gajdos, Ferenc Imreh, "Fehér könyv az 1944. őszi magyarellenes atrocitásokról" ("White Book of Atrocities against Hungarians in 1944"), (1995) Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania, Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca
English translation: "The White Book of Atrocities Against Hungarians in the Autumn of 1944" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 4, 2011. Retrieved 2006-07-12., Corvinus Library - Hungarian History
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