Why did Stalin relocate people to Siberia and central Asia?

Question by andy: Why, how, when, and why did Stalin relocate people to Siberia and central Asia?
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Answer by Slava T
The process had two sides – voluntary and involuntary relocation.
1) Voluntary movement was inspired by the Soviet propaganda for the modernisation, the construction of the industrial base of socialism in the country as a whole and in Siberia and other Soviet provinces in particular during the first Soviet five-year plans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Year_Plans_for_the_National_Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union ). The youth and professionals were encouraged to move from Central Russia to distant areas of the USSR to build new roads, plants, factories and cities. Take as examples the city of Komsomolsk-na-Amure in the Russian Far East http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomolsk-on-Amur or the city of Novokuznetsk in Siberia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novokuznetsk ). Every schoolchild in the USSR knew by heart a poem by Vladimir Mayakovski, the Soviet poet who presented the heroic version of building that city by the volunteers overcoming many hardships for the sake of “the bright future”. http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv9n2/mayakovsky.htm
2) Involuntary relocation to the distant areas of the USSR conducted under Stalin in its own turn took many forms as well:
a) There were people sentenced to prison terms and then moved to various distant locations to be used as cheap labour force. The climax of this practice was creation of a whole network of the labour camps across the USSR better known under its Russian acronym GULAG. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
b) There were people in the Stalin’s USSSR who were not sentenced to the prison terms but were legally banned to live in certain areas of the USSR or were purposefully sent for “involuntary settlement” to distant areas of the USSR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_settlements_in_the_Soviet_Union
c)There were quite a few relocations of whole peoples under Stalin that took place at different times under different pretexts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_operations_of_the_NKVD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
Hope it helped.

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