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KeAeSe October 32. — page two A Soviet plan and its application. The first phase in the huge Soviet population plan was the creation of a vacuum. The victims selected were certain populations that the communistsknew they could never absorb: well-established farmers or tradesmen, with öld traditions, strong working habits, orga tigen opposed to any Soviet “ine igeace and from of livinge They mars on out’ piano Loo chee pelt Pe that “ome of these groups were directed konávás the West, tovards Austria and Germany. They were the approximately 16,000. 000 German=s peaking expelled from their homelana (easternmost Germany, Poland, Czecho-Slovak ! and Hungary) and who disappeared, died or reached Austria. and Germanye They were the already 1,500.000 who fh@d the Russian Zone of Germany, because of actual or threatendiig dangere ‘they were finally the | 500.000 Balts and other smaller groups. the aim for pushing all these | populations in closed units into the West had a double and carefully. planned aim: the Soviet Union got rid of papulations it could not absorb; while disrupting Western economy, Western political and social structure by the arrival - in a difficult postwar period - of entire populations that had been uprooted, empoverdsbed and proletarized. Their problem was further complicated by the simultaneous movement of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and individual refugees from every nationality behind the Iron Curtaine ~ Uther population groups that the Soviets had decided to eliminate were not expelled or pushed teuwards the West, but were depvurted Kast. These were the more than 300,000 German-speaking and magyar minorities, remained in Romania - especially in Yranssylvania - who have been deported as labor force, first to the Soviet Union and lately, in large number into the baragan steppe. These were the 1,500.600 Ukranian ; deported from Foland to Russia and now from Carpatho-Ukrania to Siberia. These were the 300.000 Balts also taken to Siberia; and other smalier groups deported from Hungary and slovakia. Quite recently, this deportation movement - climinating “unreliable® populations and creating an inexpensive labor force - has extended to a new'aspect. 1t does not threaten only certain nationality groups, but involves now certain social classese in hungarian, Homanian and now also Czecho-Slovakian cities and torms, the entire elite is rounded up and taken away into labor camps or forced residences. — This mass moverents of erypulsions towards the West and ¢ portations towards the Hast involves up to now between 20 to 30 million peopleé And there will be more to suffer the same fate. With this shifting of populations, empty spaces were created and the vacuum had to be filled up again. it is most revealing to see in what way this problem was solved by 20viet “ussia. the first wave of new settlers, sent from the sast towards the pwnerless lands were purely Slavs. 4.7 million roles advanced rurtieey £ take over the previously German districts, sast of the uder-Neisse rivers. The easternmost Polish lands (thus evacuated from its population that was moved West into the previously German region) was taken over by the Soviet Union and settled by 1.5 million nussians; 800.000 more