Helen Fedor: Stalin and Russification. In: Belarus: A Country Study. Library of Congress, 1995, abgerufen am 8. August 2020 (englisch): „Stalin ordered sweeping purges and mass deportations of local administrators and members of the CPSU, as well as those who had collaborated with the Nazis in any way, those who had spent the war in slave labor and prison camps in Germany and were now „ideologically contaminated“ in Stalin's view, those who were suspected of antiSoviet sentiments, and those who were accused of „bourgeois nationalism.““