>
> PS. I think that MR article was the _only_ mention I
> have ever seen in English of the Stalin-era
> deportation of Armenians from certain areas in the
> Caucasus. I think that was in 1934-35.
>
My typo. IRANIANS were deported from border areas in 1937-38. Looking at my handy Atlas of the Ethnopolitical History of the Caucusus, the deportations were:
Kurds and Iranians from border areas of Armenia and Ajerbaijan (1937-38)
Germans (1941)
Greeks from the Black Sea Coast (1942, 1947-49)
Karachites (1943) and Balkars (1944)
Kalmyks (1943)
Chechens and Ingush (1944)
Meskhetians, Kurds and Khemshils from Georgia (1944)
Crimean Tatars, Bolgarians, Greeks and Armenians (1944)
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