Allemann, L. The sami of the Kola Peninsula : about the life of an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union / Lukas Allemann ; [transl. by Michael Lomax]. - Rovaniemi : University of Lapland Printing Centre, 2013. - 151 p. : ill., map, portr. ; 25 см. - (Senter for samiske studier, Skriftserie ; 19).

Lukas Allemann According to official statistics, during the war 8,617 ethnically 'different' people (inonacional'nosti), i.e. non-Russians, were deported, owing to the alleged danger of collaboration, from the Kola Peninsula to areas further from the front, such as Karelia, the Archangel'sk area or even the Altai Mountains .131 During the war, more than a few Sami were deported or killed, but the majority helped, either at or behind the front, to win the war. For their own physical safety, this was of course no less a risk than being deported or arrested. After the war, the social status of those who had fought was, of course, much higher than that of those who had been deported. The only study specifically devoted to the role of the small peoples of the North on the Arctic front comes to the conclusion that the individual ethnic groups by and large took on different tasks: the Russians commanded, the Sami, who knew the roadless terrain best, acted as pathfinders, the Nenets were good at sharp-shooting from hides in the wilderness and the Komi looked after the transportation with reindeer .132 For the elderly, women and children who had remained at home, the supply sit­ uation depended critically on whether many of their men had been drafted or not. Ms Mat^hina is the only informant who says that people did not go hungry in her village during the war, and mentions in the same breath the reason: all the men in the vicinity had stayed at home and could provide for their families by fishing and hunting .133T he families of my other interviewees were less fortunate. Almost all able­ bodied men were sent to the front. The remaining women and children had first of all to keep the kolkhozy running to supply the front. For the private sourcing of food, which would have been entirely possible from the surrounding natural resources, there was simply no time left .134 131 Cf.: Bogdanov 2000. 132Cf.: Gorter-Gronvik/Suprun 2000, 129. 133Cf.: Matrehina interview, lines 47-51. 134Cf. for example: Jur'eva interview, lines 67-87. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 78