The skills learned and mastered over generations in their family. However a decision was made to resettle those who were deemed undesirables in major cities like Leningrad and Moscow. Now to accomplish this, there was a passport system enacted. So if you were found on the streets of the city without your passport, do not pass go, do not collect your $100, no three strikes, you're out. And at the same time the police were under tremendous pressure to meet resettler quotas. So while some of those deported were kulaks who had traveled to the city seeking work, most were not. A majority of those were arrested and sent north to Siberia were vagabonds, criminals, and gang members.