Page "Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic" Paragraph 11

Other deportation campaigns were directed towards the ethnic Germans ( whose number decreased from over 81, 000 in 1930 to under 4, 000 in 1959 due to voluntary wartime migration and forced removal as collaborators after the war ) and religious minorities ( 700 families, especially Jehovah's Witnesses, were deported to Siberia in April 1951 under the plan " Operation North ").