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The deportation was prepared from at least October 1943 and 19,000 officers as well as 100,000 NKVD soldiers from all over the USSR participated in this operation. The deportation encompassed their entire nations, as well as the liquidation of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Feb. 23 marks the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Operation Chechevitsa (Lentil): the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples. Josef Stalin and Lavrenty Beria ordered the NKVD and...
The Stalinist regime fallaciously accused the Chechens (and the Ingush) of massive collaboration with the German invaders, and then deported them en masse on February 23, 1944. The Chechens were scattered throughout the entire Soviet Union territory and became “special settlers”.
The entire Chechen and Ingush peoples, about half-a-million strong, were being deported to Central Asia as punishment for what Moscow called their collaboration with Nazi Germany -- a move...
The genocide of the Ingush people was a crime of the Stalinist Soviet regime, an operation to forcibly deport Chechens and Ingush by the NKVD from the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
On 23 February 1944 the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) commenced an operation, in fulfilment of a decree of the State Committee for Defence (GOKO)2, to deport the Chechen and Ingush nations en masse from their homelands in the North Caucasus...
Seventy years ago, in February 1944, nearly half a million Chechen and Ingush people were herded into cattle trucks and forced into exile in remote parts of the Soviet Union. It's estimated...
