Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Musi wa 23 June 1940, Lavrenty Beria weNKVD akarayira kuti Murmansk Oblast, yaibatanidza Kola Peninsula yose, icheneswe "vagari vokune dzimwe nyika". Somugumisiro, vagari vose vokuNorway vakadzingwa kuti vagarezve muKarelo-Finnish SSR. Nenguva isipi vaifanira kutamawo ikoko, nemhaka yedzvinyiriro dzakakonzerwa nokupinda kweFinland
reSoviet Union muna 1941. Muchirimo cha1942, chikamu chikuru chakafa nenzara nokushaya zvokudya zvinovaka muviri.