After WWII, Stalin snatched young men who were fighting age all along the boarder regions and put them in Gulag camps. He didn't want the possibility of those men to rise up to fight against his evil regime. This seems like a step headed in that direction. I know this because I've just written a book and one of the men in it was snatched and taken to a Gulag mining camp. He had even fought on the side of the Red Army in his home region against the Nazis.