Operation Priboi

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Operation Priboi (Coastal Surf) was the code name for the Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on March 25-28, 1949, called March deportation by Baltic historians. Some 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, labeled as enemies of the people, were deported to inhospitable areas of the Soviet Union. It was one of the most complex deportation operations engineered by the Soviets in the Cold war era.