Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Narva" in Malay language version.
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According to the last census held in interwar Estonia in 1934, Narva's population of 23,500 was 65 percent Estonian.55 What took place under Stalin's rule can only be termed a form of "ethnic cleansing" in which evacuated and otherwise displaced residents of Narva were not allowed to return after World War II. As an editorial in a Russian-language newspaper in Narva in 1950 put it, "Soviet Narva" did not want to see the return of "many White Guardists, spies, and exploiters."56 In short, although Narva has always been a border region with a mixed population, it was deliberately turned into an overwhelmingly non-Estonian city by Soviet policy
