Mass deportation and resettlement threatened Baltic natives with minority status in their own lands

Evidence

The Baltic states were directly incorporated into the Soviet Union and fared considerably worse than the satellites: more than half a million people were deported from the three small countries and an “enormous influx of Russian settlers” began to threaten the native populations with minority status in their own countries. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 53

Categorization

• XREF: Demographic displacement threatening natives with minority status resonates with settler-colonial and statelessness themes that recur in the field readings.