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respective rulers revoke their citizenship on matters. Jurists introduced the term stateless to describe people who had been driven into permanent exile. Writer Vladimir Noble Cause himself one of those affected said it was as if they had dropped off the face of the planet over two Million People mainly russians and armenians were brutally up rooted in force to begin a new life elsewhere they dispersed to the four corners of the earth. But in spite of all their misfortune the stateless people were lucky enough to have a headstrong huma
in december of one nine hundred twenty one issued a decree in the form of an ultimatum. all russians living outside of the country were called upon to recognize the new regime and had three months in which to register at a soviet consulate if they failed to do so by this deadline their citizenship would be revoked one and a half million russians ignored this ultimatum and consequently became state less. the bolshevik government s wholesale and collective disenfranchisement of millions was completely unprecedented with a simple decree a stroke of a pen people s worlds fell apart. piece couldn t. because russians who weren t living in russia were no longer russian
don t get it at first the reds let the white forces go but many civilians went along with them. by the final months of one nine hundred twenty people were fleeing in panic from the national. by the end of one nine hundred twenty one and a half million russians had left their own land and more waiting to be taken in by various european countries most of these refugees hope to settle in germany or france but in constantinople the company of the ottoman empire their situation only worsened becoming a humanitarian catastrophe. hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the defeated white army streamed into the city with their families and became stranded there. they lived in cramped emergency shelters scattered throughout constantinople. at the time of their arrival turkish nationalists were driving orthodox christian
i don t get it at first the reds let the white forces go but many civilians went along with them. the city by the final months of one thousand twenty people were fleeing in panic on and on. by the end of one nine hundred twenty one and a half million russians had left their own land and more waiting to be taken in by various european countries most of these refugees hope to settle in germany or france but in constantinople the comparable of the ottoman empire their situation only worsened becoming a humanitarian catastrophe. hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the defeated white army streamed into the city with their families and became stranded there. they lived in cry. emergency shelters scattered throughout constantinople. at the time of their arrival turkish nationalists were driving orthodox christian
in december of one nine hundred twenty one issued a decree in the form of an ultimatum. all russians living outside of the country were called upon to recognize the new regime and had three months in which to register at a soviet consulate if they failed to do so by this deadline their citizenship would be revoked one and a half million russians ignored this ultimatum and consequently became state less. the bolshevik government s wholesale and collective disenfranchisement of millions was completely unprecedented with a simple decree a stroke of a pen people s worlds fell apart.