Finnish Operation of the NKVD

Finnish Operation of the NKVD
Part of the mass operations of the NKVD during the Great Purge
Location	Soviet Union
Date	1937–1938
Target	Finns
Attack type	Ethnic cleansing Prison shootings
Deaths	8,000–25,000
Perpetrators	NKVD
Motive	Russification Anti-Finnish sentiment

The Finnish Operation of the NKVD was a mass arrest, execution and deportations of persons of Finnish origin in the Soviet Union by the NKVD during the period of the Great Purge (1937–1938). It was a part of the larger mass operations of the NKVD which targeted many minority nationalities in the Soviet Union. Different estimations range from 8,000 to 25,000 of Finns killed or disappearing during the repression.^[1]