During the Ukrainian Civil War , a number of Ukrainian Mennonites died at the hands of anarcho-communist makhnovites . During the Soviet period , many Mennonites were persecuted , sent into exile as " kulaks " , imprisoned and executed as " enemies of the people " , and suffered from hunger and diseases . Between eight and nine thousand Mennonite men were arrested during the Great Terror , which began in autumn 1936 and ended by late 1938
Great Terror
Great Purge
Protestantism in Ukraine